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2.Terms related to aircraft wings
2.Uses
A common use of wings is in flight, using forward motion to create vertical lift, but wings are also used to produce downforce, as in racecars.Full flaps, with spoilers deployed.Leading edge: the front edge of the wing
Trailing edge: the back edge of the wing
Span: distance from wing tip to wing tip
Chord: distance from wing leading edge to wing trailing edge, usually measured parallel to the long axis of the fuselage
Aspect ratio: ratio of span to standard mean chord
Aerofoil (or Airfoil in US English): the shape of the top and bottom surfaces when viewed as cross sections cut from leading edge to trailing edge.Ailerons (usually near the wingtips) to provide roll control
Spoilers on the upper surface to disrupt lift and additional roll control
Vortex generators to help prevent flow separation
Wing fences to keep flow attached to the wing
Dihedral, or a positive wing angle to the horizontal.Anhedral, or a negative wing angle to the horizontal, has a destabilising effect
Folding wings allow more aircraft to be carried in the confined space of the hangar of an aircraft carrier.The slats at the leading edge and the flaps at the trailing edge are extended.Wing types
Swept wings are wings that are bent back at an angle, instead of sticking straight out from the fuselage.Elliptical wings (technically wings with an elliptical lift distribution) are theoretically optimum for efficiency at subsonic speeds.British Supermarine Spitfire World War II fighter aircraft.Delta wings have reasonable performance at subsonic and supersonic speeds and are good at high angles of attack.Waveriders are efficient supersonic wings that take advantage of shock waves.Rogallo wings are two partial cone sections arranged with the apexes together and the convex side up.One of the simplest wings to construct using cloth or other membrane material and a frame.Other nonplanar wing systems display an aerodynamic efficiency intermediate between closed wings and planar wings.Closed wings include annular wings, boxplanes, and joined wings.Mute swan spreads its wings.The science of wings is one of the principal applications of the science of aerodynamics.In order for a wing to produce lift it has to be at a positive angle to the airflow.In that case a low pressure region is generated on the upper surface of the wing which draws the air above the wing downwards towards what would otherwise be a void after the wing had passed.On the underside of the wing a high pressure region forms accelerating the air there downwards out of the path of the oncoming wing.The pressure difference between these two regions produces an upwards force on the wing, called lift.The pressure differences, the acceleration of the air and the lift on the wing are intrinsically one mechanism.It is therefore possible to derive the value of one by calculating another.Both approaches will result in the same answer if done correctly.This is not the case, thin flat wings can produce lift efficiently and aircraft with cambered wings can fly inverted as long as the nose of the aircraft is pointed high enough so as to present the wing at a positive angle of attack to the airflow.The common aerofoil shape of wings is due to a large number of factors many of them not at all related to aerodynamic issues, for example wings need strength and thus need to be thick enough to contain structural members.Usually aircraft wings have devices, such as flaps, which allow the pilot to modify shape and surface area of the wing to be able to change its operating characteristics in flight.Sailing boats which use sails as vertical wings with variable fullness and direction to move across water.Structures with the same purpose as wings, but designed to operate in liquid media, are generally called fins or hydroplanes, with hydrodynamics as the governing science.Applications arise in craft such as hydrofoils and submarines.Sailing boats use both fins and wings.Bat wings, such as this Malayan Flying Fox, are fleshy and without feathers.Biologists believe that animal wings evolved at least four separate times, an example of convergent evolution.Wings in these groups are analogous structures because they evolved independently rather than being passed from a common ancestor.The wings of this cockchafer are visible beneath the wing protection covers (elytra).This page was last modified 05:53, 29 December 2007.For other uses, see Wing (disambiguation).Wings achieved widespread success during the 1970s and early 1980s despite continual personnel changes.Moody Blues guitarist and singer Denny Laine.History
As The Beatles were breaking up in 1970, McCartney was working on his debut solo album, McCartney.The result was Wild Life, released December 7.It was the first project to credit Wings as the artist.However, the record left music critics cold.The band name is said to have come to McCartney as he was praying in the hospital while Linda was giving birth to their second child together, Stella McCartney.Paul McCartney recalled in the film Wingspan that the birth of Stella was "a bit of a drama"; there were complications at the birth and that both Linda and the baby almost died.He was praying fervently and the image of wings came to his mind.He decided to name his new band "Wings".Wings and returned to touring, mounting an impromptu tour of UK universities and later a tour of small European venues (with the group driving around in a van), playing no Beatles numbers.In February 1972, Wings released a single called "Give Ireland Back to the Irish", a response to the events of Bloody Sunday.Unionist political stance and only mentioned in chart rundowns on BBC Radio 1 as "a record by Wings".Partly in reaction to the ban, Wings released a children's song, "Mary Had a Little Lamb", as its next single.However, Wings followed that with November 1972's "Hi, Hi, Hi", which was again banned by the BBC, this time for its alleged drug and sexual references.Moon", was played instead.The single made it into the Top 5 in the UK and the Top 10 in the US.Wings hit, the romantic ballad "My Love".Among the unreleased songs recorded by Wings during the extensive sessions for this album (which stretched over seven months and two continents) was the Linda composition "Seaside Woman", which was finally released in 1977 (although credited to "Suzy and the Red Stripes").Wings concert performances (often accompanied by fireworks).That same year, McCartney released his first American TV special James Paul McCartney, which featured a lot of footage of Wings but was savagely criticised by noted rock journalist Lillian Roxon.June 1973, Wings went right into rehearsals for the next album.After Band on the Run, Jimmy McCulloch, former lead guitarist in Thunderclap Newman and Stone the Crows, joined the band.The first Wings project with McCulloch was McGear, a 1974 collaboration between Paul and his younger brother Mike McGear, with session musician Gerry Conway playing drums.Records chose not to play up the "Wings" angle in its marketing for McGear, and the album sold poorly.Shortly thereafter, Geoff Britton was added to Wings on drums, and the first recording session with the full lineup was held in Nashville, where the band stayed at the rural farm of songwriter Curly Putman Jr.During these sessions, Wings (with guest musicians Chet Atkins and Floyd Cramer) recorded a single that was attributed to "The Country Hams" entitled "Walking in the Park with Eloise," a song written years before by Paul's father James.Linda and Paul McCartney, Geoff Britton, Denny Laine, Jimmy McCulloch (seated).The new lineup, which was once again just called Wings, started recording sessions in London in November 1974, then moved to New Orleans to complete the album Venus and Mars (1975), the first release from the group on MPL Communications, distributed worldwide by EMI (Parlophone in the UK, Capitol in the US)."Listen to What the Man Said", which also featured Dave Mason of Traffic on guitar and Tom Scott on saxophone.When the Venus and Mars recording sessions moved to New Orleans, Britton quit Wings and was replaced by Joe English.Colin Allen) and sang one song ("Medicine Jar"); Laine sang lead vocals on a McCartney song ("Spirits of Ancient Egypt"); Paul composed and sang the rest.In between, Wings recorded Wings at the Speed of Sound, which was released at the end of March 1976, just prior to the U.It represented a departure from the prior Wings template in that each of the five primary members of the band (including Linda and Joe English) sang lead on at least one song, and both Laine ("Time to Hide") and McCulloch ("Wino Junko", again with Colin Allen) contributed songs."Silly Love Songs" and "Let 'em In", were both written and sung by Paul.Four of the album tracks were played in the 1976 portion of the tour, which also included five Beatles songs.Laine sang lead vocals on several songs (including his old Moody Blues hit "Go Now" and Paul Simon's "Richard Cory"), and McCulloch on one ("Medicine Jar"), emphasizing that Wings was more than just Paul McCartney's backing band.The tour also spawned a triple live album, Wings over America (1976).After the world tour, and following the single release of a live version of "Maybe I'm Amazed" in early 1977, Wings took a break.Later in the year, the band started recording their next album in the Virgin Islands, but the sessions were delayed by Linda's pregnancy and then by the departures of both Jimmy McCulloch and Joe English.Laine ballad "Mull of Kintyre", an ode to the Scottish Mull of Kintyre coastal region where McCartney had made his home in the early 1970s.The core trio of Wings then released the album London Town in 1978, a collection that sometimes included McCulloch and English.Later in 1978, lead guitarist Laurence Juber and former Elton John drummer Steve Holly joined the band, restoring Wings to touring strength.Influenced by the Punk and New Wave scenes, Wings abandoned its mellow touch and hired former Apple engineer Chris Thomas to help in the production process.However, the subsequent album Back to the Egg, which was not favorably received by critics, sold disappointingly, at least when compared to its immediate predecessors.Still, it went platinum in the US."Rockestra Theme", the result of an October 1978 superstar session with members of the Who, Led Zeppelin, Wings and Pink Floyd, and two other singles were taken off the album, but both did little in the charts.One song ("Again and Again and Again") was composed and sung by Laine; the rest were Paul's.During much of 1979, Wings was inactive as McCartney worked on a new solo album (McCartney II) without the band.Wings single, although once again credited to Paul McCartney and Wings) the following year.Plans for a new Wings world tour were abandoned when McCartney was arrested for possession of about 7.Other Wings members were questioned but not charged.As a result, the Japanese tour was cancelled along with other plans for Wings.However, as Wings continued to idle, Juber (in February 1981) and Holly left the band.Finally, on 27 April 1981, it was announced that Denny Laine also had left Wings, and that the band had been disbanded.Potential reunion
In July 2007, surviving Wings members Denny Laine, Denny Seiwell and Laurence Juber (excluding Paul McCartney, who was not interested in participating) reunited for one show at a BeatleFest in Las Vegas.They performed band classics including "Band on the Run", "Mull of Kintyre" and "Go Now".The longevity and success of Wings was a vindication for McCartney.But, by 1975, John Lennon's solo career had been put on hold following the birth of his son Sean, and he had stopped recording.As part of Wings, however, McCartney continued to tour regularly and to enjoy hit singles and albums the world over.By 1980, even John Lennon was jealous of Wings' (and McCartney's) continuing success, which largely inspired Lennon's own comeback that year.Laurence Juber's song "Maisie", also from the Back to the Egg sessions, appeared on his solo album Standard Time.Mars, and "Love's Full Glory", recorded in 1980 after the Japanese fiasco.Also, Wings backed Paul's brother Mike McGear on the McGear album, as well as Mike's band The Scaffold on "Liverpool Lou" and the instrumental "Ten Years After on Strawberry Jam".All 23 singles credited to Wings reached the US Top 40.Surprisingly, the only Wings album not to reach the US Top 10 was Wings Greatest.Tunes Plus was released, featuring albums from EMI.Among the albums included were the nine original albums from Wings.As of 4 June 2007, Band on the Run was the third most downloaded album from iTunes Plus.Steve Coogan's comic creation Alan Partridge naturally admires Wings, referring to them as "the band The Beatles could have been."Listings for 1978 to 1981 do not include the members of Rockestra, a "rock orchestra" supergroup including Wings that can be heard on the albums Back to the Egg and Concerts for the People of Kampuchea.Wingspan: Little Brown, 2002.Denny Seiwell of Wings.Carr, Roy and Tyler, Tony.For example, in Rolling Stone, critic Jon Landau described it as "a carefully composed, intricately designed personal statement" and "(with the possible exception of John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band) the finest record yet released by any of the four musicians who were once called the Beatles.""Paul and Linda Try the Gentle Life", The Tennessean, 18 July 1974.Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Albums, 6th edition.Laurence Juber interview, LaurenceJuber."Wings Alumni to Take Flight", ClassicRockCentral.Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon.References
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What's he going to do the second half of the day?Wing is a very funny and humble show about a bunch of normal people
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of all television series.The set consist of a lunch counter, car
rental, two airline counters, upper deck for lockers, airplane gateway,
stairs, an office and a hanger.Now what makes this show funny is the normal everyday character who are
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bother mentioning the bathroom humor like the show Jackass and the
other MTV creations.Reality sitcom shows don't even deserve to
mentioned in the presence of the greatness that is Wings.They just don't have
the witty style, originality and charisma like Wings.Wings is truly a great show.It has become a classic already.It was
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