lifting body

In this respect they could not be regarded as lifting bodies.

He was the only lifting body pilot to fly five different vehicles in the program.

Its been bent into some sort of low-drag lifting body.

In design, it was essentially a lifting body with winglets.

Use of lifting body designs to reduce vehicle structural mass.

The high speeds at which lifting body aircraft operate make them dangerous to land.

Each probe is carried to the surface in a lifting body lander.

The crew return vehicle was a tiny, four-person lifting body.

All three were wingless lifting body vehicles used in drop tests.

The landing was smooth, and the lifting body program was on its way.

It is described as a lifting body because its shape produces lift without the need for wings.

Lifting bodies pose complex control, structural, and internal configuration issues.

A lifting body is a configuration in which the body itself produces lift.

The opposite of this is a 'lifting body' which has no wings, though it may have small stabilising and control surfaces.

Flow around thick airfoils, the panel method for lifting bodies.

A lifting body is an aircraft body shaped to produce lift.

The aerodynamic approach is similar to that of a lifting body aircraft, although airspeeds are much lower.

The time for lifting bodies has finally come."

It is a lifting body, the crew evacuation vehicle used on the Space Station.

It featured a lifting body of thick airfoil section between the inner engines.

Let him put his trademark tsuriotoshi, or "lifting body slam", to some decent use.

Designs include traditional capsules, as well as "lifting body" vehicles.

Typically, it takes the form of a spacecraft equipped with wings, although lifting bodies have been designed and tested as well.

It proved the lifting body concept and led the way for subsequent, metal "heavyweight" designs.

Gentry's most notable contributions to flight test occurred when he was assigned to the lifting body research program in 1965.