Aircraft's overall width

Usage examples of wingspan.

Once they feared attack by a giant hawklike bird with nasty talons and beak and a better than three-meter wingspan, but after a lot of screeching and mock attack runs, it had broken off, possibly because they had gone out of its territory, possibly because it decided these newcomers were just too damned big to deal with.

The females had creamy yellow-green wings, very pale, their wingspans perhaps an inch and a half.

With a wingspan of ten paces, it lay on its back, pierced by a lightning bolt, and ravens pecked at its eyes.

Then it coalesced into the largest moth Bink had ever imagined, with a wingspan that cast the entire castle into shadow.

He was aware of its gradual evolution from minor landbound forms struggling to come even with the large amphibs, finally returning entirely to the sea-and then a memory gap broken only by glimpses of the larger sizes, some with lengthening necks and others with shortening necks, until this line attained its present configuration: eight full wingspans from snout to tail, the neck making up half of that.

He was aware of its gradual evolution from minor landbound forms struggling to come even with the large amphibs, finally returning entirely to the sea—and then a memory gap broken only by glimpses of the larger sizes, some with lengthening necks and others with shortening necks, until this line attained its present configuration: eight full wingspans from snout to tail, the neck making up half of that.

The seventy-seven-foot, ten-inch wingspan barely cleared the fronts of the buildings as he struggled to climb out of the glass-and-concrete canyon.

As true darkness fell, innumerable prairie gossamers - much paler than their forest cousins, but also of greater wingspan, luminescent shades the size of small children - danced in the vales and valleys of the gently rolling hills.

Beneath its fuselage is another, smaller craft: a single-seat midwing monoplane of a length of just over nineteen feet and with a wingspan of sixteen feet, fifteen inches.

But the canyons were narrow and not easily navigated by the great birds with their broad wingspans, so retrieval might have to be undertaken by the ship's company.

The carcasses of road kill were being plucked at by vultures with wingspans like Stealth bombers.

Gone also were the saber-toothed tiger, huge birds with twenty-five-foot wingspans and most other animals that weighed one hundred or more pounds, most dying by asphyxiation from the smoke and volcanic gases.

Ramotli hovered, her wingspan greater than even Mnementh's as she vaned idly.

It was a vulturelike bird, its body as big as his own, its wingspan at least a dozen feet.