wing-tip
Example Sentences
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Find a window seat with a nicely framed wing-tip view against soulful clouds.
From The Guardian • Jun. 9, 2015
Their target won't be some old, slow tubs anchored at Battleship Row or 200 P-40s and Brewster Buffaloes at Clark and Hickam Fields lined up wing-tip to wing-tip in long straight rows.
From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2014
Of the remaining six shots but one was effective—breaking the wing-tip of a young female, which was secured for a live decoy.
From Adrift in the Ice-Fields by Hall, Charles W.
Aileron—A controlling surface, usually situated at the wing-tip, the operation of which turns an aeroplane about its longitudinal axis; causes an aeroplane to tilt sideways.
From The Aeroplane Speaks by Barber, H. (Horatio)
One was making rapid evolutions, the other following, and clinging to the set course in a series of whirls with its own wing-tip as a pivot.
From Our Pilots in the Air by Brown, William Perry
