22 Across

[tuscan]

Help! Todays Pilot crossword. 22 across. Double delta wing planform as famously sported on Concorde.

Its the last clue....

I thought it was ogee but that doesn`t work......

[Final 3 Greens]

Try OUBLE, the rest of this sentence is to reach the minumum words required to post.

[Cusco]

Ogival.

Cusco

[tuscan]

Should have said, 5 letters o-i-e

[Cusco]

ogee or ogival are the words:

perhaps ogive is a bastard contraction to fit the crossword compiler's grid..

Cusco

[stevef]

Isn't ogive a diagonal rib? That might well apply to a delta planform.

[tuscan]

Ogive will do, that`s that done then...many thanks.:ok::ok:


In ballistics or aerodynamics, an ogive is a pointed, curved surface mainly used to form the approximately streamlined nose of a bullet, shell, ...