Sentence examples for upper wing from inspiring English sources

One of his stunts was to blaze into some sleepy mid-western town standing on the upper wing of a biplane.

The cells have to be bent over the curved aerofoil of the upper wing without disrupting the airflow, which would increase drag and thus reduce lift.

The laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis), with a wingspread to about 200 cm, has a white body and dark upper wing surfaces.

But in the easternmost upper wing on 55th Street, the top three floors of cresting, terra cotta dormer work, cornices, decorative blocks and other delicate terra cotta details have been stripped away, replaced with a blocky extension of beige brick.

At 16, she trained as a contemporary dancer and then worked as a wing-walker for a flying circus, performing stunts while strapped to the upper wing of a biplane, dressed in a scarlet jumpsuit.

A higher-strength variant, 7150, was developed in the early 1980s for use on the upper wing skin of commercial aircraft, and a new temper of this variant was introduced in the late 1980s to provide high resistance to corrosion at the highest strength level.

Ulysses swallowtails flashing electric-blue upper wings.

You will struggle to see its orangey-brown upper wings for it always perches with its wings closed.

Ringlet Aphantopus hyperantus The upper wings are a lovely velvety chocolate brown, and can appear almost black; when they fade the butterfly is quite similar to the male meadow brown.

The upper wing-coverts are brownish-black and similar to the outer primaries in their margin colouration.

The tail and the upper wings are black, and the underwings are brown.