underwing in English

noun
1
the hind wing of an insect, especially when it is normally hidden by a forewing.
The butterflies have tiger striped underwings and little black tails on their back wings.
2
the underside of a bird's wing.
They note that white plumage seen on the bird's back doesn't match the pattern of a pileated woodpecker, nor does the absence of black trailing edges on the underwings of the bird in the video.
3
a moth with drab forewings and brightly colored hind wings, typically yellow or red with a black terminal band.

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1. The Manitoba underwing, Catocala manitoba or Catocala praeclara manitoba, is a moth of the family Erebidae.

2. During flight, a V-shaped white rump patch and the silver-gray underwing linings are visible.

3. Tempest FB II : Single-seat fighter-bomber with underwing pylons for bombs and rockets.

4. Why do most Airliners have underwing engines, while business jets have rear-mounted engines? 3

5. J 29B Fighter, 332 built 1953–55; featured 50% larger fuel capacity and underwing hardpoints to carry bombs, rockets and drop-tanks.

6. The A-26C nose section included two fixed M-2 guns, later replaced by underwing gun packs or internal guns in the wings.

7. Armament was heavy: four 20 mm cannon and four 50 caliber (0.50 in; 12.7 mm) machine guns, as well as underwing and under-fuselage hardpoints for bombs and torpedoes.

8. F2A-3 Improved F2A-2 for the United States Navy with longer range and provision to carry two underwing 100 lb (45 kg) bombs, 108 built.

9. An additional 26 B-26s were obtained from US military stocks, 'sanitized' at 'Field Three' to obscure their origins, and about 20 of them were converted for offensive operations by removal of defensive armament, standardization of the 'eight-gun nose', addition of underwing drop tanks and rocket racks.