Gull wing

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For the type of automobile door, see gull-wing door.

The gull-winged PBM Mariner.

The gull wing is a distinctive 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.

Vought F4U Corsair, showing an inverted gull wing.

Notable gull-winged aircraft

Conventional gull wing

• PBM Mariner
• Westland Lysander
• B-25 Mitchell
• PZL P.11
• I-153

Inverted gull wing

• F4U Corsair
• Junkers Ju 87 Stuka

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