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angle of attack
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angle between the chord of a wing and the undisturbed airflow
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- angular measure
- Image
- SketchAngleOfAttack.svg
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- different from
- angle of incidence
- contributing factor of
- stall
- Commons category
- Angle of attack (aviation)
- manifestation of
- angle
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Encyclopedic overview
Angle of attack of an airfoil
In fluid dynamics, angle of attack (AOA, α, or
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “angle of attack” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.