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PRONUNCIATION OF LIFTING BODY

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LIFTING BODY

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Lifting body is a noun.
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WHAT DOES LIFTING BODY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Lifting body

A lifting body is a fixed-wing aircraft or spacecraft configuration in which the body itself produces lift. In contrast to a flying wing, which is a wing with minimal or no conventional fuselage, a lifting body can be thought of as a fuselage with little or no conventional wing. Whereas a flying wing seeks to maximize cruise efficiency at subsonic speeds by eliminating non-lifting surfaces, lifting bodies generally minimize the drag and structure of a wing for subsonic, supersonic, and hypersonic flight, or, spacecraft re-entry. All of these flight regimes pose challenges for proper flight stability. Lifting bodies were a major area of research in the 1960s and 70s as a means to build a small and lightweight manned spacecraft. The US built a number of lifting body rocket planes to test the concept, as well as several rocket-launched re-entry vehicles that were tested over the Pacific. Interest waned as the US Air Force lost interest in the manned mission, and major development ended during the Space Shuttle design process when it became clear that the highly shaped fuselages made it difficult to fit fuel tankage.

Definition of lifting body in the English dictionary

The definition of lifting body in the dictionary is a wingless aircraft or spacecraft that derives its aerodynamic lift from the shape of its body.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LIFTING BODY

lifeway
lifework
lifeworld
Liffey
Lifford
LIFO
lift
lift attendant
lift cage
lift operator
lift pump
lift shaft
liftable
liftback
liftboy
lifter
liftgate
liftman
liftmen
liftoff

WORDS THAT END LIKE LIFTING BODY

all-metal body
black body
body
celestial body
ciliary body
fat body
food body
foreign body
fruit body
fruiting body
governing body
grey body
heavenly body
inclusion body
parent body
polar body
review body
ruling body
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upper body
vitreous body

Synonyms and antonyms of lifting body in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «lifting body» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LIFTING BODY

Find out the translation of lifting body to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of lifting body from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «lifting body» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

升力体
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cuerpo de elevación
570 millions of speakers

English

lifting body
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

उठाने शरीर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

رفع الجسم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

несущий корпус
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

corpo de elevação
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শরীর উদ্ধরণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

corps de levage
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mengangkat badan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Auftriebskörper
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

揚力体
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

양력 체
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ngangkat awak
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nâng cơ thể
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உடல் தூக்கும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उचल शरीरा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kaldırıcı cisim
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

corpo di sollevamento
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

podnoszenie ciała
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

несучий корпус
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

corp de ridicare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ανύψωσης του σώματος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

opheffing van die liggaam
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

lyftkropp
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

løfte kroppen
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LIFTING BODY»

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LIFTING BODY»

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Wingless Flight: The Lifting Body Story
"Wingless Flight" tells the story of the most unusual flying machines ever flown, the lifting bodies.
National Aeronautics Administration, R. Dale Reed, Darlene Lister, 2013
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Popular Science
Dropped like pointed rock from its mother ship, X-24B begins flight. Flying NASA's X-24B Lifting Body Flying at hypersonic speeds in near space and at slow speeds for landing is a problem for one aircraft. This strange shape can do both By ...
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Popular Science
The inventor, Ralph W. Sawyer, claims it's the only true lifting body functioning in the world today. That's what first intrigued me when I heard about the wingless plane. Research on lifting bodies began in the early Ws, when NASA started ...
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Popular Mechanics
BY GREGORY T. POPE, Science/Technology Editor HL-10 pioneered trie lifting body. Lockheed's proposal (topi revives It, HL-10 experienced control problems on its maiden glide flight and was grounded for 15 months. Not until November ...
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Expanding the Envelope: Flight Research at NACA and NASA
"Joint-Action Management Plan: A Report of the Management Plan Used By NASA-NORTHROP to Design and Build the World's First Supersonic Lifting Body Vehicles— M2-F2 and HL-10," Md., DFRC Historical Reference Collection; ...
Michael H. Gorn, 2001
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Robotics—Advances in Research and Application: 2013 Edition
“The gripping means may be provided on each lifting body. More specifically, the present invention may be a connection structure between a lifted body and a lifting device for lifting and lowering the lifted body, the lifting device including a pair ...
‎2013
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Coming Home: Reentry and Recovery from Space
The M2-F1 completed over 100 flights and 395 ground tows before being retired on August 18, 1966.47 By early 1963, preliminary studies were underway on an Air-launched, rocket-powered lifting body built largely with systems and ...
Roger D. Launius, Dennis R. Jenkins, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2012
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X-Planes at Edwards
The knowledge gained from the lifting body research aided in the development of the reusable space shuttle fleet, which carries personnel and equipment to space , returning to earth by landing on the ground like an airplane. The space shuttle ...
Steve Pace
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Airplane Stability and Control: A History of the ...
14.9 Lifting Body Stability and Control A lifting body is a wingless vehicle that depends on lift generated from an elongated body or fuselage. Both lifting bodies and ballistic shapes had been studied as space vehicles by NASA before the ...
Malcolm J. Abzug, E. Eugene Larrabee, 2005
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Twenty-Second Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics
In this method, the singularity strengths on a non-lifting body or a lifting body and the singularity strengths on the free surface are solve separately. For solving the body problems, Green's identity formula is adopted, and a potential based ...
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, Naval Studies Board, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LIFTING BODY»

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Former Milford fire chief's 1955 Buick is one hot ride
He did a great job starting with the restoration and he did the heavy lifting body work and paint. Why did you want this particular car? I wanted a ... «Wicked Local Natick, Jun 15»
2
Sierra Nevada partners with German Aerospace Center to develop …
The Dream Chaser is a reusable lifting body that can carry a crew of seven, plus payload, to and from the ISS. The design was derived from ... «SpaceFlight Insider, Apr 15»
3
Airlander 10, Largest Aircraft in World, Definitely a Heavy Lifter
... also land anywhere, they are limited in payload and range -- plus the Airlander is much more efficient thanks to its hybrid 'lifting body' design. «Newsmax, Apr 15»
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USAF Test Pilots School Vets Safer Adaptive Flight Controller
Tests of the controller in Calspan's variable-stability Learjet included dealing with roll-coupled yaw while simulating a lifting body and high ... «Aviation Week, Apr 15»
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What's Better: Cardio Or Weights? Here's What I've Learned Doing …
My weight lifting body is capable in that I don't have to struggle with carrying bulk dog food from the store to my car. There are absolutely ... «Care2.com, Apr 15»
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Unmanned version of Dream Chaser spaceplane unveiled
Where the competitors looked like throwbacks to the 1960s with their capsule designs, Dream Chaser was a winged lifting body that was ... «Gizmag, Mar 15»
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Dream Chaser Cargo Spacecraft Will Be Rapidly Reusable | Video
... Nevada's Dream Chaser Cargo version could visit space facilities, then re-enter and glide to a runway landing thanks to its lifting body-based aero-design. «Space.com, Mar 15»
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X-24A Maximum Speed Mission
Forty-four years ago this month, the USAF/NASA X-24A lifting body was flown to a speed of 1,036 mph (Mach 1.6) by NASA Research Pilot ... «seattlepi.com, Mar 15»
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The world's biggest aircraft: Giant airship gets closer to take-off …
... land anywhere, they are limited in payload and range — plus the Airlander is much more efficient thanks to its hybrid 'lifting body' design.”. «Q13 FOX, Mar 15»
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This F-16 Viper Managed To Fly Back To Base Missing Half A Wing
Although we've seen this kind of thing before (check the video below), the F-15's is a lifting body design, with much of its lift coming from the ... «Jalopnik, Feb 15»

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