The Oxford-Duden Pictoral English Dictionary - Aircraft I

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1-14 - wing configuration

  1. high-wing plane
  2. span (wing span)
  3. shoulder-wing plane
  4. midwing plane
  5. low-wing plane
  6. triplane
  7. upper wing
  8. middle wing
  9. lower wing
  10. biplane
  11. strut
  12. cross bracing wires
  13. sesquiplane
  14. low-wing monoplane with cranked wings
    (inverted gull wings)

15-22 - wing shapes

  1. elliptical wing
  2. rectangular wing
  3. tapered wing
  4. crescent wing
  5. delta wing
  6. swept-back wing with semi-positive sweepback
  7. swept-back wing with positive sweepback
  8. ogival wing (ogee wing)

23-36 - tail shapes
(tail unit shapes, empennage shapes)

  1. normal tail

    24-25 - vertical tail
    (vertical stabilizer and rudder)

  2. vertical stabilizer (vertical fin, tail fin)
  3. rudder

    26-27 - horizontal tail

  4. tailplane (horizontal stabilizer)
  5. elevator

  6. cruciform tail
  7. T-tail
  8. lobe
  9. V-tail
  10. double (twin) tail unit
  11. end plate
  12. double (twin) tail unit of a twin-boom aircraft
  13. raised horizontal tail with double booms
  14. triple tail unit

37-55 - system of flaps

  1. system of flaps
  2. extensible slat
  3. spoiler
  4. double-slotted Fowler flap
  5. outer aileron (low-speed aileron)
  6. inner spoiler (landing flap, lift dump)
  7. inner aileron (all-speed aileron)
  8. brake flaps (air brake)
  9. basic profile

    46-48 - plain flaps

  10. normal flap
  11. slotted flap
  12. double-slotted flap

    49-50 - split flaps

  13. plain split flaps (simple split flaps)
  14. zap flap

  15. extending flap
  16. Fowler flap
  17. slat
  18. profiled leading-edge flap (droop flap)
  19. Krueger flap