variable-sweep wing aircraft

C7282
concept

A variable-sweep wing aircraft is an airplane whose wings can pivot in flight to change their sweep angle, optimizing aerodynamic performance for different speeds and flight conditions.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
variable-sweep wing aircraft canonical 4
variable‑sweep wing aircraft 3
variable-geometry wing aircraft 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: variable-sweep wing aircraft
Generated description
A variable-sweep wing aircraft is an airplane whose wings can pivot in flight to change their sweep angle, optimizing aerodynamic performance for different speeds and flight conditions.

Instances (8)

Instance Via concept surface
Grumman F-14 Tomcat
Tupolev Tu-160
Su-22
Su-17
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 variable-geometry wing aircraft
Tornado
surface form: Panavia Tornado
variable‑sweep wing aircraft
Tornado multirole combat aircraft
surface form: Panavia Tornado
variable‑sweep wing aircraft
Panavia Tornado variable‑sweep wing aircraft