Definitions
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- noun The
delta wing , made offabric , of ahang glider ormicrolight
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Examples
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The flexwing popped and the struts began to expand before it was clear.
I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010
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Through his terror came a single memory, that lifting the fore edge of the flexwing would cause him to slow and rise.
I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010
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Chintithpit-mang bellowed and pulled back in his harness to catch more air in his flexwing, increasing lift, striving desperately to avoid contact with the planet.
I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010
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The land was yellow and brown, crossed by a white line of road, and now was a good time to learn if his flexwing would open.
I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010
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The harness rolled with him; the flexwing wrapped around him; one of the struts hissed in his face as his bayonet punctured it.
I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010
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He was falling toward a rippling white landscape, vast in extent, and his collapsed bubble was still tangled around his flexwing.
I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010
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He stripped them off, dropped his flexwing and looked about him.
I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010
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He had to nerve himself to let go of the flexwing; and only then did it begin to drag at the air until he was flying.
I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010
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