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strut-braced wing: a standalone construct

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Aircraft design

a high aspect ratio wing supported by a strut or truss, allowing a thinner, longer wing with less induced drag at a given weight.

In aircraft design, strut-braced wing refers to a high aspect ratio wing supported by a strut or truss, allowing a thinner, longer wing with less induced drag at a given weight. This meaning comes from Gundlach (2000) in Journal of Aircraft.[1]

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aspect4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs drag3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs truss1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

Gundlach, J. F., Tetrault, P., Gern, F. H., Nagshineh-Pour, A. H., Ko, A., Schetz, J. A., Mason, W. H., Kapania, R. K., Mason, W. H., Grossman, B., & Haftka, R. T. (2000). Conceptual Design Studies of a Strut-Braced Wing Transonic Transport. Journal of Aircraft, 37(6), 976-983. https://doi.org/10.2514/2.2724

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