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Definition of Angle of attack
1. Noun. The acute angle between the direction of the undisturbed relative wind and the chord of an airfoil.
Definition of Angle of attack
1. Noun. (&lit angle attack) ¹
2. Noun. (context: aeronautics) The angle between the chord line of an airfoil and the airflow over it; one of the determiners of the amount of lift produced by an airfoil. ¹
3. Noun. (context: nautical) The angle between a mid-sail and the direction of the wind. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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1. Physics of the Air by William Jackson Humphreys (1920)
"On plunging squarely into the column; thus suddenly increasing the angle of
attack, the pressure on the wings, and the angle of ascent. 3. ..."
2. The Dynamics of the Airplane by Kenneth Powers Williams (1921)
"For a given angle of attack the machine therefore flies faster as the altitude
... Let P be a point on the curve corresponding to an angle of attack a. ..."
3. Textbook of Naval Aeronautics by Henry Woodhouse (1917)
"angle of attack indicator. Radiator temperature indicator. Gasoline feed system
pressure indicator. Sextant. Aeroplane director. ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1917)
"The difference is made apparent in Fig. i, in which the vertical height of a
point denotes the force, the horizontal distance the angle of attack of the ..."
5. Proceedings of the Berkeley-Ames Conference on Nonlinear Problems in Control by Louis R. Hunt, Clyde Martin (1984)
"The variation with angle of attack of the normal-force coefficient (directed
normal to the body axis and In the plane of the angle of attack) that occurs on ..."
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