High-lift wing

The purpoted advantages (see Potential advantages below) of the BWB approach are efficient high-lift wings and a wide airfoil-shaped body.

The fuselage was slab-sided, of welded steel-tube construction with fabric covering, and the wings were wood structures with fabric covering. Like the Fokker, the Boeing fighter also had high-lift wings to improve handling characteristics at low ...

See also: Lift, Plane, Boeing, Fuselage, Structure