sweepback|sweepbacks in English
noun
(Aviation) backward slope of an airplane wing created by having the outer section of the wing downstream from the inner sectio
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1. The British Hawker Siddeley Trident has the same sweepback angle, while the Boeing 727 has a slightly smaller sweepback angle of 32°.
2. The SB5 was designed to allow a gradual approach to this configuration, flying initially with 50° sweepback before conversion to 60° when it would resemble, aerodynamically, a seven-eighths scale model of the Lightning.