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tuscan 1st November 2008 17:42

22 Across
 
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 1st November 2008 17:46

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

Cusco 1st November 2008 17:48

Ogival.

Cusco

tuscan 1st November 2008 17:49

Should have said, 5 letters o-i-e

Cusco 1st November 2008 17:54

ogee or ogival are the words:

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

Cusco

stevef 1st November 2008 17:56

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

tuscan 1st November 2008 18:04

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, ...


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