{"id":8165,"date":"2024-05-10T18:26:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T10:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/?p=8165"},"modified":"2024-05-12T13:38:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T05:38:37","slug":"sweepback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/aviation\/sweepback\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweepback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ref FAA PHAK<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">What&#8217;s <strong>sweepback?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ans: the wind tilted backward<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Feature of sweepback?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>sweep back design is common for modern airliner (for transonic flight)<\/li>\n<li>sweep back design has significance on the movement around longitudinal axis (lateral stability)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Swept Wings | Simple explanation of a complex topic.\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/11nz0YZSNxw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Do Backwards Wings Exist?\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RN6vGxyMcVU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Important: don&#8217;t mix up &#8220;Sweepback&#8221; with &#8220;Taper&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Taper:<\/strong> decrease of thickness and\/or chord from wing root to wing tip<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8166\" src=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/5-33-Wing-platform.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"367\" height=\"518\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ref FAA PHAK What&#8217;s sweepback? Ans: the wind tilted backward Feature of sweepback? sweep back design is common for modern airliner (for transonic flight) sweep back design has significance on the movement around longitudinal axis (lateral stability) Important: don&#8217;t mix up &#8220;Sweepback&#8221; with &#8220;Taper&#8221; Taper: decrease of thickness and\/or chord from wing root to wing<a class=\"read-more \" href=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/aviation\/sweepback\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button default\">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atpl-knowledge","category-aviation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8165"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8172,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8165\/revisions\/8172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}