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trailing edge

NOUN
  1. the rear edge of an airfoil

How To Use trailing edge In A Sentence

  • It is mostly black, with white at the trailing edge of the secondaries, on the sides of the rump, and on the throat, narrowing towards the belly.
  • The individual, more likely to be a trailing edge boomer, is still enjoying the protective coloring of youth. Defining Denial (The Boomer Blog)
  • To resist fore and aft movement, the wing will usually be fitted with a second smaller drag-spar nearer the trailing edge, tied to the main spar with structural elements or a stressed skin. Transition Team Update - NASA Watch
  • The white secondaries of each wing were clearly visible, separated by the black back of the bird, and they reached all the way to the trailing edge of the wings.
  • It sat on the trailing edge of the wings, preventing the ailerons from moving.
  • They note that white plumage seen on the bird's back doesn't match the pattern of a pileated woodpecker, nor does the absence of black trailing edges on the underwings of the bird in the video.
  • The trailing edge smoothed out well and the excess plastic flash just fell off.
  • To withstand the force of the oncoming air, a flight feather is shaped asymmetrically, the leading edge thin and stiff, the trailing edge long and flexible.
  • Trailing edge blowing wake management technology was adopted to improve the flow of stator wake.
  • Like the wings of a bird, they are 'cambered', that is to say, they curve upward from the leading edge and downward again to the trailing edge. The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force
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