As an example of lifting wings in nonuniform flight speeds, slender wings are studied. The flight speeds may be subsonic, transonic, or supersonic. It is found that the lift force and lift distribution are affected explicitly by the instant acceleration, and not by the whole history of the past flight. It makes a clear contrast to usual non-slender wings. An acceleration (a deceleration) increases (decreases) the lift force, from that for a constant flight speed. The reason of this result is inferred. An important dimensionless quantity, "reduced acceleration, " is defined by
UC0/UU2, where
U is acceleration, C0 is maximum wing chord, and
U is the instant flight speed.
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