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I don't believe the 109 family has ellliptical wings. An elliptical wing is not the same thing as rounded wingtips which is what 109's have. Spitfire and P-47 are the best known aircraft with elliptical wings. - Emt147 Burninate! 05:40, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
What about these?
Is this topic notable? The elliptical lift distribution probably is, but an elliptical planform is not the way to achieve that. Rather, it is often an accident of design, arising arbitrarily from other constraints - for example on the Supermarine Spitfire it was a late-breaking bodge to make room for an extra machine gun on each side. If its notability cannot be verified, then this article should be AfD-ed. — Cheers, Steelpillow ( Talk) 20:16, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
Why this is said like this "...the external wing outline of the excellent 1930s era Mitsubishi A5M carrier fighter was almost identical to that of the Spitfire, in spite of being brought into service well before the Spitfire was"? It implies that the Japanese copied the British, being the Japanese a previous design? English not my native language. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.25.152.222 ( talk) 18:24, 4 January 2019 (UTC)
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I don't believe the 109 family has ellliptical wings. An elliptical wing is not the same thing as rounded wingtips which is what 109's have. Spitfire and P-47 are the best known aircraft with elliptical wings. - Emt147 Burninate! 05:40, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
What about these?
Is this topic notable? The elliptical lift distribution probably is, but an elliptical planform is not the way to achieve that. Rather, it is often an accident of design, arising arbitrarily from other constraints - for example on the Supermarine Spitfire it was a late-breaking bodge to make room for an extra machine gun on each side. If its notability cannot be verified, then this article should be AfD-ed. — Cheers, Steelpillow ( Talk) 20:16, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
Why this is said like this "...the external wing outline of the excellent 1930s era Mitsubishi A5M carrier fighter was almost identical to that of the Spitfire, in spite of being brought into service well before the Spitfire was"? It implies that the Japanese copied the British, being the Japanese a previous design? English not my native language. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.25.152.222 ( talk) 18:24, 4 January 2019 (UTC)