Camber (aerodynamics)

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The camber in aerospace engineering is the asymmetry between the top and the bottom curves of an airfoil. Cambered airfoils generate lift at positive, zero, or even small negative angle of attack, whereas a symmetric airfoil only has lift at positive angles of attack.

See also

• Chord
• NACA airfoil

 

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