Timeline for How does a fighter jet perform good and quick maneuvers with such small wings?
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| Apr 12, 2018 at 14:18 | history | edited | fooot |
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| Sep 18, 2015 at 6:13 | comment | added | Ross Presser | "If I were meant to fly at speed, I'd have a falcon's short wings, and live on mice instead of fish." -- Jonathon Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach | |
| Sep 17, 2015 at 10:10 | comment | added | Agent_L | Fighters have actually larger wings than airliners - when compared to their mass (smaller wing loading). | |
| Sep 17, 2015 at 1:09 | answer | added | Martin Argerami | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 17, 2015 at 0:20 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackAviation/status/644304911358935040 | ||
| Sep 16, 2015 at 21:11 | vote | accept | Ethan | ||
| Sep 16, 2015 at 18:44 | answer | added | user10079 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 16, 2015 at 18:28 | comment | added | Peter Cordes | Jet fighters have low aspect ratio wings. Their wing area is not as small as you'd think from just looking at wing span. Even so, they get by with small wings. See my answer, and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect_ratio_%28aeronautics%29. | |
| Sep 16, 2015 at 17:42 | answer | added | Peter Cordes | timeline score: 2 | |
| S Sep 16, 2015 at 16:59 | history | suggested | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Copy edited. Added some context.
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| Sep 16, 2015 at 14:27 | answer | added | aeroalias | timeline score: 35 | |
| Sep 16, 2015 at 14:08 | answer | added | Todd Wilcox | timeline score: 9 | |
| Sep 16, 2015 at 13:59 | answer | added | GdD | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 16, 2015 at 13:32 | answer | added | Steve H | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 16, 2015 at 13:09 | comment | added | Ethan | Some fighter jets have a long winspan. The ones I am reffering too are the f15,f16,f18, and the f35. | |
| Sep 16, 2015 at 13:03 | history | asked | Ethan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |