Sentence examples for wing used for from inspiring English sources

In German, this ambiguity is resolved by the term Schwinge which does not necessarily mean a wing used for flying.

As the plane picked up speed in the dive, the crew deployed the speed brakes, panels on the wings used for landing, as they used other controls to stabilize the jet.

Beetles have a set of hard wings that protect the delicate wings used for flight.

This wing used to be offices for the Inland Revenue, but it is now occupied by Makerversity, a hive of young business start-ups which get to rent desk space at affordable prices.

The wing outline used for the series has zero skewback and twist, while wing tips are rounded for better hydrodynamic performance.

Earlier this week, investigators revealed that flight JK5022 had failed to deploy wing flaps used for takeoff.

DNA extracted from a mosquito leg and/or wing was used for analysis.

The consensus wing was used for aligning all individual shape configurations and for computing the shape components (i.e., partial warps and the uniform component) in tpsRelw [ 64].

There, the idea of wings was used for what the designer Yoshiyuki Miyamae called "flapping colors" — meaning a new technique of printing on both sides of the fabric to give a three-dimensional effect, which was reinforced by a reflective mirror runway.

What we don't know is what primitive wings were used for before bird ancestors could fly.

In insects, it has been hypothesized that early "wings" were used for skimming across the surface of water (Marden and Kramer 1994; Marden and Thomas 2003).