Re:Grumman X-29: An impossible fighter jet with inverted wings
by Someone on Sunday September 29, 2019 @12:59PM
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FTA, second sentence after the title:
”Its astonishing forward-swept wings were just one of its many bold innovations.”
I count 8 occurrences of “forward-swept”, and 4 of “inverted wing”.
I think they used ‘inverted wing’ as a synonym to prevent repetition of a fairly long term. It also is quite possible that the editor, not the writer of the article, chose the article’s title, picking the shorter and, arguably, ‘easier’ term.
”Its astonishing forward-swept wings were just one of its many bold innovations.”
I count 8 occurrences of “forward-swept”, and 4 of “inverted wing”.
I think they used ‘inverted wing’ as a synonym to prevent repetition of a fairly long term. It also is quite possible that the editor, not the writer of the article, chose the article’s title, picking the shorter and, arguably, ‘easier’ term.