wingspan

Transforms from hawk to robot and back!

DECEPTICON: WINGSPAN

FUNCTION: DATA PROCESSOR
"Knowledge is the most deadly weapon of all."

Always poking his beak where it doesn't belong. Nosey. Voracious appetite for new data to analyze. Looks in people's windows as readily as he spies on enemy troops. In hawk mode, has superb vision. Chemical and infra-red sensors collect and analyze geographical data, locate resources. In robot mode, has two electro-burst rifles. Clone brother is Pounce.

• Strength: 5
• Intelligence: 9
• Speed: 6
• Endurance: 5
• Rank: 6
• Courage: 7
• Firepower: 7
• Skill: 9

When you put a hawk's wings on its back and paralyzed arms on its side, everyone knows it doesn't look right. Pounce just had to deal with skinny legs in animal mode, but Wingspan just looked wrong all over.

The distance between wingtips of an aircraft.

Other interesting things about wings are:

• chord: the mean distance from front to rear
• aspect ratio: ratio of span to chord
• area: total area as projected vertically (or onto a plane parallel to the direction of flight)
• wing loading: ratio of lift load (mostly due to mass) to wing area

The combination of these parameters seen on a given wing depends on the purpose of the wing and the flight envelope expected. Clearly a B2 wing does not look like a glider wing, does not look like a F16 wing.