What are the different type of shapes WINGS or Airofoil in Plane?
I know few wings like DELTA shape wing, trianular wing….Help me know more shapes
NACS has tons of airfoils. Google it, and you’ll get a bunch of shapes.
In addition to delta wings, there are straight wings, where the leading and trailing edge are both 90 deg to the fuselage, there are tapered wings, which start 90 deg to the fuselage and, typically, the trailing edge of the wing tapers forward to the direction of flight. And there are swept wings, (usually tapered,) where the leading edge of the wing sweeps towards the tail of the aircraft, allowing for a longer wing and less profile drag, meaning greater lift and increased economy for the speeds expected in cruise flight.
Another interesting thing to note is diehedral. Most aircraft have some diehedral built into the wings. Diehedral is the upward angle of the wings from the fuselage to the wing tip. This provides greater flight stability.
Low wing aircraft, (with the wings mounted at the bottom of the fuselage,) tend to have a greater diehedral than high wing aircraft because with low wings, the rest of the airframe is sitting on top of the center of lift while the high wing basically hangs from the center of lift.
Think of it this way, if you pound a nail into your wall, you can hang something from it easly. If you drive two nails and set something with a pointed bottom between the nails, it’ll stay where you put it until the nails bend.
Cathedral, used by some fighters and stunt aircraft, has the wings sloping downward from the fuselage. This increases agility and manueverability by allowing the airplane’s weight to use gravity to basically fall over the center of lift in a turn.
To go back to the nail in the wall analysis, try to balance a painting in a circular frame on a single nail.
If a google search doesn’t give you more information on NACS airfoils than you want, www. ntsb.gov, should be able to help you find what you’re interested in.
www.airliners.com will also have more pictures than you ever wanted to see of airplanes and can better illustrate the various wing designs and shapes. High wing aircraft are Cessna from the 140 model to the 208, with the 336 and 337 along the way, Piper Cubs, Tri-Pacers and the like. Low wing aircraft with varying diehedrals include the Mooney M-20, Piper PA-28, anything from Beechcraft, and most jets.
Good luck, hope I helped.
JT
Tapered, Eleptical, straight, swept back, forward sweep, Rogallo wings, Variable geometry wings.
EDIT: Found this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing#Wing_types
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Continuing where Charles M left off…
Delta, double delta, elliptical…
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Left, right. Unless you’re a navy puke, then it’s port, starboard. Sorry. I know this was a serious question but I had nothing further to add to the fine answers above. Forgive me.
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NACS has tons of airfoils. Google it, and you’ll get a bunch of shapes.
In addition to delta wings, there are straight wings, where the leading and trailing edge are both 90 deg to the fuselage, there are tapered wings, which start 90 deg to the fuselage and, typically, the trailing edge of the wing tapers forward to the direction of flight. And there are swept wings, (usually tapered,) where the leading edge of the wing sweeps towards the tail of the aircraft, allowing for a longer wing and less profile drag, meaning greater lift and increased economy for the speeds expected in cruise flight.
Another interesting thing to note is diehedral. Most aircraft have some diehedral built into the wings. Diehedral is the upward angle of the wings from the fuselage to the wing tip. This provides greater flight stability.
Low wing aircraft, (with the wings mounted at the bottom of the fuselage,) tend to have a greater diehedral than high wing aircraft because with low wings, the rest of the airframe is sitting on top of the center of lift while the high wing basically hangs from the center of lift.
Think of it this way, if you pound a nail into your wall, you can hang something from it easly. If you drive two nails and set something with a pointed bottom between the nails, it’ll stay where you put it until the nails bend.
Cathedral, used by some fighters and stunt aircraft, has the wings sloping downward from the fuselage. This increases agility and manueverability by allowing the airplane’s weight to use gravity to basically fall over the center of lift in a turn.
To go back to the nail in the wall analysis, try to balance a painting in a circular frame on a single nail.
If a google search doesn’t give you more information on NACS airfoils than you want, www. ntsb.gov, should be able to help you find what you’re interested in.
http://www.airliners.com will also have more pictures than you ever wanted to see of airplanes and can better illustrate the various wing designs and shapes. High wing aircraft are Cessna from the 140 model to the 208, with the 336 and 337 along the way, Piper Cubs, Tri-Pacers and the like. Low wing aircraft with varying diehedrals include the Mooney M-20, Piper PA-28, anything from Beechcraft, and most jets.
Good luck, hope I helped.
JT
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Been doing this a long time.