Definition of delta wing in English:
delta wing
noun
A single triangular swept-back wing fitted on some jet aircraft.
（尤指军用飞机的）三角（后掠）翼- One former Vulcan pilot explained: ‘Although it was an easy aircraft to fly, it owed everything to the two pairs of Olympus 202 engines housed within the delta wing.’
- I am of an age where I have never not been aware of Concorde and never not felt that with its dynamic shape and delta wing that it was ever anything else than the Queen of the Skies.
- These fighters had large delta wings instead of the conventional wings and tail stabilizers.
- Under this concept the launch vehicle, which has a solid-fuel engine and a delta wing, would be suspended under the airplane's fuselage.
- Soon the dismal, dark skies over Heathrow had given way to a brilliant blue, with the sun glinting on Concorde's delta wings.
Derivatives
delta-winged
- The last flight of the XB - 70 occurred in February 1969 when the delta-winged bomber arrived at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, to become part of the Air Force Museum's permanent collection.
- For the futuristic delta-winged craft is said to be the perfect paper plane and instructions on how to construct it in 10 simple stages were published online yesterday by the Institute of Physics.
- In the late 1950s, the USAF acquired a supersonic strategic bomber in the Convair B - 58, a delta-winged aircraft that could exceed Mach 2.
- An unexpected result is that there are striking similarities between the flow patterns found and those that occur around the wings of delta-winged aircraft.
- The delta-winged jet, which served the RAF during the Cold War, is the only one of its kind in the UK fit to be restored to flight.
adjective
Definition of delta wing in US English:
delta wing
nounˈdeltə wiNGˈdɛltə wɪŋ
A single triangular swept-back wing on some aircraft, typically military aircraft.
（尤指军用飞机的）三角（后掠）翼- Under this concept the launch vehicle, which has a solid-fuel engine and a delta wing, would be suspended under the airplane's fuselage.
- One former Vulcan pilot explained: ‘Although it was an easy aircraft to fly, it owed everything to the two pairs of Olympus 202 engines housed within the delta wing.’
- These fighters had large delta wings instead of the conventional wings and tail stabilizers.
- Soon the dismal, dark skies over Heathrow had given way to a brilliant blue, with the sun glinting on Concorde's delta wings.
- I am of an age where I have never not been aware of Concorde and never not felt that with its dynamic shape and delta wing that it was ever anything else than the Queen of the Skies.