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rafwire Aeronaut.|ˈræfwaɪə(r)|
Also Rafwire, RAFwire, raf-wire.
[f. the initial letters of the Royal Aircraft Factory + wire n.]
A kind of wire having a flattened, semi-streamlined cross-section formerly used as bracing wire on aircraft.
1918W. E. Dommett Dict. Aircraft 38 Rafwire, wires of flattened section, approaching to streamline shape, designed originally at R.A.F. 1920Techn. Rep. Advisory Comm. Aeronaut. 1915–16 15 Recent Laboratory tests have shown that raf-wires of the type developed at the Factory show little or no aerodynamic disadvantage as compared with wires of stream-line section. 1922Encycl. Brit. XXX. 34/2 The elliptical-section wires were called ‘Rafwires’, to distinguish them when they were standardized. 1933Flight 4 May 412/2 External bracing is by RAFwire. 1933Jrnl. R. Aeronaut. Soc. XXXVII. 788 The ‘singing’ of a rafwire when yawed in the wind at an angle greater than the stalling angle is an example of this type of oscillation. |