I love taking pictures of aeroplanes. They seem to grafeful, streamlined, like dolphins. When I was a teenager I wrote a short story called Ailerons Are Bits Of Perfection.
Definition: Ailerons are small hinged sections on the outboard portion of a wing. Ailerons usually work in opposition: as the right aileron is deflected upward, the left is deflected downward, and vice versa.
(http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/alr.html)
The upward facing wingtips are meant to provide stability - a bit like skegs under a surfboard.
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