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  2. Fuselage - Wikipedia

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    Flying wing" aircraft, such as the Northrop YB-49 Flying Wing and the Northrop B-2 Spirit bomber have no separate fuselage; instead what would be the fuselage is a thickened portion of the wing structure. Conversely, there have been a small number of aircraft designs which have no separate wing, but use the fuselage to generate lift.

  3. Wing configuration - Wikipedia

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    Shoulder wing: mounted on the upper part or "shoulder" of the fuselage, slightly below the top of the fuselage. A shoulder wing is sometimes considered a subtype of high wing. [1] [2] High wing: mounted on the upper fuselage. When contrasted to the shoulder wing, applies to a wing mounted on a projection (such as the cabin roof) above the top ...

  4. Blended wing body - Wikipedia

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    A blended wing body (BWB), also known as blended body, hybrid wing body (HWB) or a lifting aerofoil fuselage, [1] is a fixed-wing aircraft having no clear dividing line between the wings and the main body of the craft. [2] The aircraft has distinct wing and body structures, which are smoothly blended together with no clear dividing line. [3]

  5. Strake (aeronautics) - Wikipedia

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    Nose, wing and ventral strakes Vortices over the wing strakes of an F/A-18E Super Hornet. In aviation, a strake is an aerodynamic surface generally mounted on the fuselage of an aircraft to improve the flight characteristics either by controlling the airflow (acting as large vortex generators) or by a simple stabilising effect.

  6. Fixed-wing aircraft - Wikipedia

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    The fuselage is typically long and thin, usually with tapered or rounded ends to make its shape aerodynamically smooth. Most fixed-wing aircraft have a single fuselage. Others may have multiple fuselages, or the fuselage may be fitted with booms on either side of the tail to allow the extreme rear of the fuselage to be utilized.

  7. Airframe - Wikipedia

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    This structure is typically considered to include the fuselage, undercarriage, empennage and wings, and excludes the propulsion system. [2] Airframe design is a field of aerospace engineering that combines aerodynamics, materials technology and manufacturing methods with a focus on weight, strength and aerodynamic drag, as well as reliability ...

  8. Lifting body - Wikipedia

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    US X-24A, M2-F3 and HL-10 lifting bodies. A lifting body is a fixed-wing aircraft or spacecraft configuration in which the body itself produces lift.In contrast to a flying wing, which is a wing with minimal or no conventional fuselage, a lifting body can be thought of as a fuselage with little or no conventional wing.

  9. Wing root - Wikipedia

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    The wing root of a simple aircraft, an American Aviation AA-1 Yankee, showing a wing root fairing. The wing root is the part of the wing on a fixed-wing aircraft or winged-spaceship that is closest to the fuselage, [1] and is the junction of the wing with the fuselage (not with a nacelle or any other body).