body flap

The wheels were extended from the body flaps, and the little man edged the vehicle out on ground level.

They are both thin enough to be see-throughs, with their cellophane-like bodies flapping on the court.

There was a cry of excitement from below as the body flapped down the stairs, its wings working like paddles.

Ravn's body flapped about in agony; he could not breathe or talk and death was very close.

Its burning body flapped against his jacket.

A flock of strange birds with broad red wings and lean blue bodies flapped up from one tree as she watched.

These, along with a movable body flap, controlled the Orbiter during later stages of descent through the atmosphere and landing.

The face struggles bravely; the body flaps and twitches; this lawyer fights the truth so hard that he falls over.

While more impact resistant than other tiles, white versions conducted more heat which limited their use to the orbiter's upper body flap and main engine area.

These so-called auxiliary power units run the shuttle's hydraulic system, which moves the spaceship's body flaps and rudder and deploys the landing gears.

Initial analysis of this anomaly suggested that the body flap was out of position due to a misprediction of the pitching moment at hypersonic speeds.

AMaRV's attitude was controlled through a split body flap (also called a "split-windward flap") along with two yaw flaps mounted on the vehicle's sides.

This process verified the functionality of Atlantiss flight control surfaces, actuating the rudder, speed brakes, wing and tail body flaps which guided the shuttle through the atmosphere.

With a radically swept delta wing, and 2, 3, or 4 vertical stabilizers, as well as several body flaps (depending on the model), the vehicle did not lack for control surfaces.

The units operate the hydraulic system for swiveling the rocket engines during liftoff and the body flaps, rudder and other control devices during the launching and the landing.

They were also used in areas on the upper forward fuselage, parts of the orbital maneuvering system pods, vertical stabilizer leading edge, elevon trailing edges, and upper body flap surface.

The hydraulic power is needed for the shuttle's rudder/speed brake, elevons, body flap and landing gear during descent, and for the main engine nozzles' gimballing during ascent.

Additionally, the body flaps are extended flaps along the sides of the head, neck, and tail; back sides of the hind limbs; and extensive webbing on the hands and feet.

In a cavernous assembly hangar here, the pieces of a new space shuttle - wings, body flaps, engine pods and the main fuselage - are being put together and slowly covered with tiles to serve as a heat shield.

These materials were used around the leading edge of the nose cap, windshields, side hatch, wing, trailing edge of elevons, vertical stabilizer, the rudder/speed brake, body flap, and heat shield of the shuttle's main engines.

The four elevons, mounted at the trailing edge of the wings, and the rudder/speed brake, attached at the trailing edge of the stabilizer, with the body flap, controlled the orbiter during descent and landing.

The same overpressure wave also forced the shuttle's "body flap" - an extension on the orbiter's underbelly that helps to control pitch during reentry - more than 5 out of position and into an angle well beyond the point where cracking or rupture of the hydraulic system would have been expected.