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- noun Plural form of
foreplane .
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Examples
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The missile had a sleek aerodynamically attractive configuration with small canard foreplanes, a delta wing, and a small tail fin with rudder.
Strategic Air Command: People Aircraft and Missiles 2nd Edition Polmar, Norman & Laur, Timothy 1990
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Past investments in precision final assembly techniques for the Typhoon have already benefited the F-35, while the STOVL variant's nozzle bay door is made using the same method developed for its titanium foreplanes.
HEADLINES 2010
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Once these advantages were observed during wind-tunnel tests of Blackbird models, the use of canard foreplanes was no longer needed.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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Once these advantages were observed during wind-tunnel tests of Blackbird models, the use of canard foreplanes was no longer needed.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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Once these advantages were observed during wind-tunnel tests of Blackbird models, the use of canard foreplanes was no longer needed.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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