The wing root of a simple aircraft, an American Aviation AA-1 Yankee, showing a wing root fairing

A fairing is a structure whose primary function is to produce a smooth outline and to reduce drag. These structures are generally light-weight shapes and covers for gaps and spaces between parts of a vehicle, aircraft or rocket to reduce form drag and interference drag, and to improve appearance. On aircraft fairings are commonly found on: A aircraft wing root - in this case that of an American Aviation AA-1 Yankee. ... A aircraft wing root - in this case that of an American Aviation AA-1 Yankee. ... For a solid object moving through a fluid or gas, drag is the sum of all the aerodynamic or hydrodynamic forces in the direction of the external fluid flow. ... A Japan Airlines Boeing 747-400. ... The second stage of a Minuteman III rocket // Description A multistage (or multi-stage) rocket is, like any rocket, propelled by the recoil pressure of the burning gases it emits as it burns fuel. ... In aerodynamics, form drag, profile drag, or pressure drag, is a component of parasitic drag. ... In aerodynamics, interference drag is a component of parasitic drag which is caused by vortices. ...

• wing tips, which may have a complex shape to reduce vortex generation and so also drag, especially at low speed
• wing roots to reduce interference drag
• tail cones, to reduce form drag of the fuselage
• fin and rudder tips to reduce turbulance at the tip
• elevator and horizontal stabilizer tips
• wing to fuselage junction to reduce interference drag
• strut to wing and strut to fuselage junctions
• fixed landing gear junctions
• engine cowlings, to reduce parasitic drag and cooling drag.

On satellite launch vehicles fairings are expensive, high tech designs that protect the satellite from aerodynamic forces, while maintaining a cleanroom environment. The fairing separation mechanisms for rocket launchers are difficult to design and test and represent a significant cause of launch failures. The wing tip of a Quad City Challenger II, formed with an aluminum bow The wing tip of an American Aviation AA-1 Yankee, showing its Hoerner style design The wing tip is that part of the wing most distant from the fuselage of a fixed-wing aircraft. ... The wing root of a simple aircraft, an American Aviation AA-1 Yankee, showing a wing root fairing The wing root is that part of the wing, on a fixed-wing aircraft, that is closest to the fuselage. ... The worlds oldest depiction of a rudder. ... For other meanings of elevator see Elevator (disambiguation). ... In an aircraft, the fuselage is the main body section that holds crew and passengers or cargo. ... Parasitic drag is drag caused by moving a solid object through a fluid. ... A satellite is any object that orbits another object (which is known as its primary). ... Rockets (including missiles) can be launched from the following: for a launch into an orbital spaceflight and beyond: a launch pad, including a floating platform (see San Marco platform, Sea Launch) for the launch into a suborbital flight also: a missile silo a mobile launcher vehicle a submarine air launch... Nasas Glenn Research Center cleanroom. ...