CAP Squadron 80 Aerospace Education

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04 June 2018

Presentation: June 2018

This month's AE presenter: David
Date of presentation: 4 June 2018
Subject: Delta-winged Aircraft
Description: Delta wings provide several important benefits. As triangular structures, they are inherently strong. Delta wings are streamlined. With supersonic aircraft, the leading edge of a delta wing can be angled so that the entire wing remains in subsonic air. Delta wings have surprisingly good low speed performance due to vortex lift, or leading edge vortexes effectively creating a highly-cambered airfoil. Delta aircraft can have conventional tails or be a tailless flying wing. If the aircraft is also a flying-wing, it will have to land at high angles of attack due to limited ability to deploy flaps.