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flying wing
noun
, Aeronautics.
- an airplane whose wings form almost all the airframe, with the fuselage almost or entirely within the wing structure.
flying wing
noun
- an aircraft consisting mainly of one large wing and no fuselage or tailplane
- (in Canadian football) the twelfth player, who has a variable position behind the scrimmage line
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Word History and Origins
Origin of flying wing1
First recorded in 1935–40
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Example Sentences
The flying wing would also reduce the number of window seats.
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Great freight planes were flying wing-to-wing, head-on for the tottering crag—deliberately smashing into the topmost point.
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The Dahlia fruit has also a flying wing, and a great many others might be mentioned.
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The officers and men of the naval flying wing were the only British there, and they must have seemed strange to the French people.
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These upper wings, that are half wing cover and half flying wing, are characteristic of the bug order.
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Then a third kind of enemy appeared—two of them at once, flying wing-and-wing—and Garlock stopped and watched.
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