wing-tip
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Find a window seat with a nicely framed wing-tip view against soulful clouds.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 9, 2015
Their target won't be some old, slow tubs anchored at Battleship Row or 200 P-40s and Brewster Buffaloes at Clark and Hickam Fields lined up wing-tip to wing-tip in long straight rows.
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2014
Aileron—A controlling surface, usually situated at the wing-tip, the operation of which turns an aeroplane about its longitudinal axis; causes an aeroplane to tilt sideways.
From The Aeroplane Speaks by H. (Horatio) Barber
As Wildenai had promised they discovered, poised high among the crags of the wild southern shore, the great eagles of which she had told him, measuring easily, from wing-tip to wing-tip, fully a dozen feet.
From Their Mariposa Legend; a romance of Santa Catalina by Charlotte B. (Charlotte Bronte) Herr
He saw the silhouette of a hawk, wing-tip feathers spread, circling over the Illinois country across the river, hunting in the last moments before nightfall.
From Shaman by Robert Shea
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