airfoil

Example Sentences

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One has nightmares about wood shingle siding "that ignites and flies off like an airfoil spreading fires."

From Salon

Fewer new aircraft means fewer new jet engines, including those containing turbine frames and airfoils manufactured by Howmet.

From Washington Post

Oriented like two airplane wings standing upright on their side, the pair of airfoils directly face the wind.

From Scientific American

Bernoulli’s theorem attempts to explain lift as a consequence of the curved upper surface of an airfoil, the technical name for an airplane wing.

From Scientific American

At just 16, he began studying computational airfoil design at Duke University in North Carolina.

From BBC