The gull-winged PBM Mariner.

The gull wing is a distinctive aircraft configuration that gives the wings a pronounced bend close to the fuselage. Usually intended to solve propeller clearance problems, it can lift flying boat's engines higher above the ocean to avoid spray. In ground-based aircraft it often is inverted, allowing the landing gear to be shorter and sturdier. Photograph published in: Aircraft of the Fighting Powers Vol III Ed: H J Cooper, O G Thetford and D A. Russell Harborough Publishing Co, Leicester, England 1942. ... Photograph published in: Aircraft of the Fighting Powers Vol III Ed: H J Cooper, O G Thetford and D A. Russell Harborough Publishing Co, Leicester, England 1942. ... The Martin PBM Mariner was a US Navy patrol bomber flying boat of World War II and the early Cold War period. ... In computing, WinG (pronounced Win Gee) was an API to provide fast graphics performance on Windows 3. ... A propeller can be seen as a rotating fin in water or a wing in air. ... Boeing 314 A flying boat is an aircraft that is designed to take off and land on water, in particular a type of seaplane which uses its fuselage as a floating hull (instead of pontoons mounted below the fuselage). ... Something that is inverted is something that is flipped over, around or otherwise appearing in an opposite manner than is normal, customary, or common. ... The undercarriage or landing gear is equipment which supports an aircraft when it is not flying. ...

Vought F4U Corsair, showing an inverted gull wing.

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Notable gull-winged aircraft

Conventional gull wing

• PBM Mariner
• Westland Lysander
• B-25 Mitchell

The Martin PBM Mariner was a US Navy patrol bomber flying boat of World War II and the early Cold War period. ... The Westland Lysander is an airplane used during World War II (Flying example in the Shuttleworth Collection, 2004. ... B-25 Mitchell, England, 2001 B-25 Mitchell was a twin-engined, medium bomber manufactured by North American Aviation in the United States and used during World War II. By the time production of the plane ended, roughly 10,000 had been built, including PBJ-1 Navy Patrol Bomber and...

Inverted gull wing

• F4U Corsair
• Junkers Ju 87 Stuka