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A composite photograph showing the Bell X-5’s variable-sweep wing. The Bell X-5 was the first aircraft capable of changing the sweep of its wings in flight. It was inspired by the untested wartime P.1101 design of the German Messerschmitt company. In a further development of the German design, which could only have its wing sweepback angle ...
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A variable-sweep wing, colloquially known as a "swing wing", is an airplane wing, or set of wings, that may be modified during flight, swept back and then returned to its previous straight position. Because it allows the aircraft's shape to be changed, it is a feature of a variable-geometry aircraft.
A straight-winged North American FJ-1 flying next to a swept-wing FJ-2 in 1952.. There are three main reasons for sweeping a wing: [1] 1. to arrange the center of gravity of the aircraft and the aerodynamic center of the wing to coincide more closely for longitudinal balance, e.g. Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet and Messerschmitt Me 262.
The L-39-2 was retained by Bell to support their X-2 program, being modified with a new fully swept wing of a design intended for the X-2. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] On December 12, 1949, both aircraft were transferred to the Lewis Research Center before being sold for scrap in 1955.
Developed from the Sukhoi Su-7, the Su-17 was the first variable-sweep wing aircraft to enter Soviet service and featured updated avionics. The aircraft also has variants which were designed to be exported to non-Soviet states such as the Sukhoi Su-22 and the less popular Su-20. It was produced from 1967 to 1990.
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The term variable-geometry wing is often used synonymously with variable-sweep, though strictly speaking it is a type of variable geometry. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Variable-sweep wing aircraft .