Sentence examples for wing area from inspiring English sources

Wing loading was calculated as total body weight / total wing area (cf. Betts and Wootton 1988; Breuker et al. 2010).

That allows them to gauge wind resistance, which gives them some measure of wing area.

Many flaps effectively increase wing area, adding to lift and to drag.

Lift and drag are roughly proportional to the wing area of an aircraft; if all other factors remain the same and the wing area is doubled, both lift and drag will be doubled.

Designers therefore attempt to minimize drag by keeping the wing area as small as possible, while enhancing lift with certain types of trailing-edge flaps and leading-edge slats, which have the ability to increase wing area mechanically.

And the birds with shorter wings lost more weight than the controls, to compensate for the smaller wing area.

However, along the margins there are long, dense fringes of hairs that maintain the functional wing area.

In addition by increasing the camber angle with increasing the wing area, to increase the lift.

"The feathers [move and] change the wing area as they are flapping".

I live in a very right-wing area of Sao Paulo state and lefties like me are in a minority.

I live in a very right-wing area of Sao Paulo state and lefties like me are a minority.