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Slow flight
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Vortex lift

Lift from highly sweptback aircraft wings

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Bernoulli grip
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Kline–Fogleman airfoil

Airfoil design

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Static pressure

Term in fluid mechanics

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USAF Stability and Control DATCOM
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Prandtl–Glauert transformation

Mathematical technique in aerodynamics

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Aircraft flight mechanics

Physics of heavier than air aircraft

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Coandă effect

Tendency of a fluid jet to stay attached to a surface of any form

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Wind tunnel

Machine used for studying the effects of air moving around objects

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Anti-shock body

Pod attached to a plane's aerodynamic surface, to reduce wave drag at transonic speeds

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Blade pitch

Angle of a blade in a fluid

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Wing warping

Early system for lateral control of a fixed-wing aircraft

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Coordinated flight

Flight of an aircraft without sideslip

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Propulsive efficiency

Measure of efficiency in aerospace engineering

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Airfoil

Cross-sectional shape of a wing, blade of a propeller, rotor, or turbine, or sail

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Missile Datcom
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Oblique shock

Shock wave that is inclined with respect to the incident upstream flow direction

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Autorotation (fixed-wing aircraft)

Aircraft in or near a stall rolling

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Vortex lift

Lift from highly sweptback aircraft wings

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Bernoulli grip
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Kline–Fogleman airfoil

Airfoil design

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Clark Y airfoil

Airfoil design

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Laminar flow

Flow where fluid particles follow smooth paths in layers

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Lifting-line theory

Mathematical model to quantify lift

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Sears–Haack body

Most aerodynamic shape for supersonic vehicles

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Stockbridge damper

Tuned mass damper used to suppress wind-induced vibrations

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P-factor

Yawing force caused by a rotating propeller

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Center of gravity of an aircraft

Point over which the aircraft would balance

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Clark Y airfoil

Airfoil design

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Laminar flow

Flow where fluid particles follow smooth paths in layers

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Lifting-line theory

Mathematical model to quantify lift

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Sears–Haack body

Most aerodynamic shape for supersonic vehicles

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Stockbridge damper

Tuned mass damper used to suppress wind-induced vibrations

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Crosswind

Wind that faces opposite side of a plane when landing

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Clark Y airfoil

Airfoil design

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Laminar flow

Flow where fluid particles follow smooth paths in layers

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Lifting-line theory

Mathematical model to quantify lift

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Sears–Haack body

Most aerodynamic shape for supersonic vehicles

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Stockbridge damper

Tuned mass damper used to suppress wind-induced vibrations

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Headwind and tailwind

Type of wind by direction of travel

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Center of gravity of an aircraft

Point over which the aircraft would balance

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Headwind and tailwind

Type of wind by direction of travel

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Vortex ring

Torus-shaped vortex in a fluid

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Bow shock (aerodynamics)

Curved propagating disturbance wave

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Keel effect
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Anti-shock body

Pod attached to a plane's aerodynamic surface, to reduce wave drag at transonic speeds

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Blade pitch

Angle of a blade in a fluid

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Wing warping

Early system for lateral control of a fixed-wing aircraft

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Slipstream

Fluid dynamics phenomenon

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