flying wing

noun

, Aeronautics.

an airplane whose wings form almost all the airframe, with the fuselage almost or entirely within the wing structure.

flying wing

an aircraft consisting mainly of one large wing and no fuselage or tailplane
(in Canadian football) the twelfth player, who has a variable position behind the scrimmage line

First recorded in 1935–40

Great freight planes were flying wing-to-wing, head-on for the tottering crag—deliberately smashing into the topmost point.

The Dahlia fruit has also a flying wing, and a great many others might be mentioned.

The officers and men of the naval flying wing were the only British there, and they must have seemed strange to the French people.

These upper wings, that are half wing cover and half flying wing, are characteristic of the bug order.

Then a third kind of enemy appeared—two of them at once, flying wing-and-wing—and Garlock stopped and watched.

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