The wing configuration or planform of a fixed-wing aircraft is its arrangement of lifting and related surfaces.
The Spitfire wing may be classified as: "a conventional low-wing cantilever monoplane with unswept elliptical wings of moderate aspect ratio and slight dihedral".
A forward-swept-wing Sukhoi Su-47 alongside the more conventional swept-back Su-27 and Su-30MK2.
An airplane, or aeroplane, also plane, is a fixed-wing aircraft that is propelled forward by thrust from a jet engine, propeller, or rocket engine. Airplanes come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and wi
A United Airlines Boeing 777-200 on approach to land
Le Bris and his glider, Albatros II, photographed by Nadar, 1868