3 example sentences using buttonhook.
Buttonhook used in a sentence
Buttonhook in a sentence as a noun
Build planes capable of fast transients and a natural buttonhook tendency.
It was so maneuverable that it enabled a completely new type of combat tactic, called in the book I read the 'buttonhook turn'. When the Air Force was done with it, though, it lost all the aerodynamic characteristics that made it special.
Amusing, the original YF-16A prototype could supercruise, and execute a "buttonhook turn" maneuver, without the fancy 21st century engines. Imagine what the F-22's P&W F119 engine could do in a modernized F-16 airframe...
Buttonhook definitions
noun
a hook for pulling a button through a buttonhole