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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A flight maneuver or stunt in which an airplane enters a climbing turn until almost stalled and is allowed to fall while the turn is continued until normal flight is attained in a direction opposite the original heading.

Examples

  • “Wang: A "wingover" maneuver involving a sharp 90-degree turn.”

    Newsweek: Buzzwords

  • ““After we were done shooting inside of an airplane, an old 70-year-old German junker -- a sort of flying school bus -- Tom took control of the plane and took it into a full wingover about 200 feet over the trees,” recalled director Bryan Singer (Superman films, The Usual Suspects).”

    Eyepatch in Place, Herr Cruise Scared the Daylights Out of Little Suri

  • “Another Ifryn Myrmidon came out of a wingover headed for the shoulder of Dainyl's pteridon, a position from which Dainyl could not turn enough to physically aim the skylance at the attacker.”

    Soarer's Choice

  • “Avatre did a wingover and headed in that direction on her own, but by the time they arrived, the situation was already well in hand.”

    Aerie

  • “Kiron sent Avatre in a wingover to make a second pass, scattering the riders further.”

    Aerie

  • “Armstrong proved “above average” from the start at “inverted stall, wingover rolls, & loops” (Oct. 5, C-1); “All acrobatics excellent” (Oct. 15, C-8); “Acrobatics well above average” (Oct. 18, C-11); “Precision maneuvers very smooth” (Oct. 24, C-18).”

    Simon & Schuster: First Man

  • “Abruptly Kel did a wingover and another steep dive, heading deliberately into the bush!”

    Owlflight

  • “The target sighted, Oreb began a wingover that quickly became a dive.”

    Exodus From The Long Sun

  • “Coyote killed the afterburner, then snapped the Tomcat into a wingover which sent the heavy aircraft plunging toward the cloud deck in an inverted dive.”

    Carrie

  • “As they pulled up they rolled into a wingover to the west and strafed what the intelligence people told us might be an early warning radar site in the hills on the northern edge of the valley.”

    Thud Ridge

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