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  2. Asymmetrical aircraft - Wikipedia

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    Asymmetrical aircraft have left- and right-hand sides which are not exact mirror images of each other. Although most aircraft are symmetrical, there is no fundamental ...

  3. Blohm & Voss BV 141 - Wikipedia

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    The company's design team, headed by chief designer Dr. Richard Vogt, produced a somewhat radical proposal in the form of the uniquely asymmetric BV 141. [ 1 ] [ 7 ] In terms of its general configuration, the aircraft's single engine was directly attached to the forward end of the tail boom while the crew were seated with a Plexiglas -glazed ...

  4. Rutan Boomerang - Wikipedia

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    Profile Right profile. The Rutan Model 202 Boomerang is an aircraft designed and built by Burt Rutan, with the first prototype taking flight in 1996. [1] The design was intended to be a multi-engine aircraft that in the event of failure of a single engine would not become dangerously difficult to control due to asymmetric thrust.

  5. NASA AD-1 - Wikipedia

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    The NASA Oblique Wing Research Aircraft, the predecessor to the AD-1. The first known oblique wing design was the Blohm & Voss P.202, proposed by Richard Vogt in 1942. [1] The oblique wing concept was later promoted by Robert T. Jones, an aeronautical engineer at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California.

  6. Wing configuration - Wikipedia

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    Asymmetric layout: the Blohm & Voss BV 141 had separate fuselage and crew nacelle offset on either side to give the crew a good field of view. Asymmetric span : on several Italian fighters such as the Ansaldo SVA , one wing was slightly longer than the other to help counteract engine torque.

  7. P-factor - Wikipedia

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    P‑factor, also known as asymmetric blade effect and asymmetric disc effect, is an aerodynamic phenomenon experienced by a moving propeller, [1] wherein the propeller's center of thrust moves off-center when the aircraft is at a high angle of attack.

  8. Oblique wing - Wikipedia

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    Oblique wing on a NASA AD-1. An oblique wing (also called a slewed wing) is a variable geometry wing concept. On an aircraft so equipped, the wing is designed to rotate on center pivot, so that one tip is swept forward while the opposite tip is swept aft.

  9. Flight with disabled controls - Wikipedia

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    The asymmetric lift causes asymmetric drag, which causes the aircraft to yaw adversely. To correct the yaw, the pilot uses the rudder to perform a coordinated turn. In a multi-engined aircraft, the loss of thrust in one engine can also cause adverse yaw, and here again the rudder is used to regain coordinated flight.