NAME: LOPEZ, MIKEE E.
Program Year & Sec.: BSAMT 3-F
WING CONFIGURATION:
LOW WING
A VICKERS SUPERMARINE SPITFIRE MK. 1A - P9374
The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft that was used by the Royal
Air Force and other Allied countries before, during, and after World War II. Many variants of
the Spitfire were built, using several wing configurations, and it was produced in greater
numbers than any other British aircraft.
HIGH WING
Antonov An-225
There is nothing on Earth or in the air quite like the Antonov An-225. Dwarfing a Boeing 747
and out-lifting a U.S. Air Force C-5A Galaxy, it can haul an expeditionary force into combat,
or carry enough food to avert a famine. Yet, oddly, the original purpose of the An-225 was
neither hostile nor humanitarian. Conceived in the chilliest years of the Cold War, the plane
was designed as an airborne tow truck for the now-defunct Soviet space shuttle program.
Despite its lack of armaments, NATO war planners gave the An-225 a military code name,
Cossack. History would reveal that the Soviet nickname for the An-225, Mriya, which is
Ukrainian for "dream," was more apt.
MID WING
Brewster SB2A Buccaneer
The Brewster SB2A Buccaneer was a single-engined mid-wing monoplane scout/bomber
aircraft built for the Royal Air Force and United States Navy between 1942 and 1944. It was
also supplied to the United States Army Air Forces and United States Marine Corps.
INVERTED GULL
Vought F4U Crossair has inverted gull wing design, and Beriev Be-12P-200 Chaika
amphibious aircraft have a standard gull-wing design.
Most aircraft have its wings pointing out straight from its fuselage, but this sort of wing is
quite peculiar. Gull Wing is a type of wing arrangement named after sea birds which it
resembles. Since the early 1930s, this type of wing profile has been very useful for seaplanes.
Through time and development, aircraft get heavier and require more thrust, stronger engines,
and larger propellers. In order to allow propeller clearance to such specifications, the gull-
wing design is implemented.
DELTA WING
Saab 35 Draken
The Saab 35 Draken is known for, among other things, its many "firsts" within aviation. It
was the first European-built combat aircraft with true supersonic capability to enter service
and the first fully supersonic aircraft to be deployed in Western Europe. Designwise it was
one of, if not the first, combat aircraft designed with double delta wings, being drawn up in
early 1950. The unconventional wing design also had the side effect of making it the first
known aircraft to perform and be capable of the Cobra maneuver. It was also one of the first
Western-European-built aircraft to exceed Mach 2 in level flight, reaching it on 14 January
1960.
SWEPTBACK WINGS
A B-52 Stratofortress showing its swept wings
Swept wings have been flown since the pioneer days of aviation. Wing sweep at high speeds
was first investigated in Germany as early as 1935 by Albert Betz and Adolph Busemann,
finding application just before the end of the Second World War. It has the effect of delaying
the shock waves and accompanying aerodynamic drag rise caused by fluid compressibility
near the speed of sound, improving performance. Swept wings are therefore almost always
used on jet aircraft designed to fly at these speeds. Swept wings are also sometimes used for
other reasons, such as low drag, low observability, structural convenience or pilot visibility.
The term "swept wing" is normally used to mean "swept back", but variants include forward
sweep, variable sweep wings and oblique wings in which one side sweeps forward and the
other back. The delta wing is also aerodynamically a form of swept wing.
