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A laughing gull with its wings extended in the gull wing profile

A wing is an appendage with a surface that produces lift for flight or propulsion through the atmosphere, or through another gaseous or liquid fluid. A wing is an airfoil, which has a streamlined cross-sectional shape producing a useful lift to drag ratio.

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How Wings Work - Holger Babinsky Physics Educat...</span></big> How Wings Work - Holger Babinsky <u>Physics Education 2003 www.iop.org/EJ/article/0031-9120/38/6/001/pe3_6_001.pdf - Web

"Physics of flight - revisited" Weltner and Ingelm... "Physics of flight - revisited" Weltner and Ingelman-Sundberg user.uni-frankfurt.de/~weltner/Flight/PHYSIC4.htm - Web

How Airplanes Fly: A Physical Description of Lift How Airplanes Fly: A Physical Description of Lift www.aviation-history.com/theory/lift.htm - Web

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Demystifying the Science of Flight Demystifying the Science of Flight www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3875411 - Web

NASA's explanations and simulations NASA's explanations and simulations www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/short.html - Web

Advanced Topics in Aerodynamics Advanced Topics in Aerodynamics aerodyn.org/Wings/ - Web

Flight of the StyroHawk wing Flight of the StyroHawk wing www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4E6M2VGQyk - Web

See How It Flies See How It Flies www.av8n.com/how/htm/airfoils.html - Web

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