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- Description
- Origins
- Unmanned aerial vehicles as wingmen
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
300px|thumb|Curtiss JN-4|Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" formation
A wingman (or wingmate) is the pilot of a secondary aircraft providing support or protection to a primary aircraft in a potentially dangerous situation, traditionally flying in formation to the side and slightly behind the primary craft. The term is sometimes used in reference to the secondary aircraft itself, particularly when it is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) rather than human-piloted plane.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “wingman” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.