sweptback
- s (especially of aircraft wings) angled rearward from the point of attachment
aircraft with sweptback wings - s used of hair
- The plastic-bodied Firebird closely resembles Douglas' supersonic F4D Skyray, with its sweptback delta wings (for stability), its vertical tail fin, and plastic bubble enclosing .
- North American Aviation, which has done nothing but military work since last year, is in production on 223 of its F-86, a sweptback-wing jet fighter, and 138 of its B45 jet .
- The X2, another Bell-built rocket plane with sweptback, stainless steel wings and tail, and a Monel metal body.