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...

A blended wing body (BWB), also known as blended body, hybrid wing body (HWB) or a lifting aerofoil fuselage, is a fixed-wing aircraft having no clear...

A body lift is a modification where spacers are installed between a vehicle's body and chassis in order to increase the ride height (only increases running...

maximize cruise efficiency at subsonic speeds by eliminating non-lifting surfaces, lifting bodies generally minimize the drag and structure of a wing for subsonic...

moving through a fluid Lift coefficient, a coefficient that relates the lift generated by a lifting body to other parameters Lift (soaring), rising air...

by NASA's Langley Research Center around 1990. It was envisaged as a lifting body re-entry vehicle similar to the Soviet BOR-4 spaceplane design. Its stated...

dynamics, the lift coefficient (CL) is a dimensionless quantity that relates the lift generated by a lifting body to the fluid density around the body, the fluid...

M2 lifting bodies. He also received the 1967 Octave Chanute Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) for his lifting-body...

maximize cruise efficiency at subsonic speeds by eliminating non-lifting surfaces, lifting bodies generally minimize the drag and structure of a wing for subsonic...

was an Austrian aerospace engineer best known for his contributions to lifting body and ramjet technology. Sänger was born in the former mining town of Preßnitz...

was an American aeronautics engineer, instrumental in furthering the lifting body and flying wing concept. Burnelli was born on November 22, 1895, in Temple...

exhaust Lift-induced drag (also called induced drag) is drag which occurs as the result of the creation of lift on a three-dimensional lifting body, such...

"weightlifting". Other weightlifting sports include stone lifting, powerlifting, kettlebell lifting, and para powerlifting—the weightlifting sport practiced...

highest-ever flight in a lifting body, to 90,303 feet, in the HL-10. He also made the final powered flight of a lifting body, in the X-24B (1975). Dana...

to determine the aerodynamic performance of the Lockheed Martin X-33 lifting body and linear aerospike engine combination and to lay groundwork for a future...

The Northrop HL-10 is one of five US heavyweight lifting body designs flown at NASA's Flight Research Center (FRC—later Dryden Flight Research Center)...

Northrop HL-10 – Lifting body/re-entry vehicle research Northrop M2-F2 – Lifting body/re-entry vehicle research Northrop M2-F3 – Lifting body/re-entry vehicle...

(HTA-IC)) is a project by TsAGI for a very large wing-in-ground-effect, lifting-body cargo aircraft with a take-off weight of 1000 tons, a payload of 500...

filled with a lifting gas such as helium, hydrogen or hot air, which is less dense than the surrounding air. When the weight of the lifting gas is added...

The Northrop M2-F2 was a heavyweight lifting body based on studies at NASA's Ames and Langley research centers and built by the Northrop Corporation in...

aerodynamic lifting force Klaus Weltner, Am. J. Phys. Vol.55 January 1, 1987 "The lift on the body is simple...it's the reaction of the solid body to the turning...

lifting body – the whole aircraft acts as a low aspect ratio wing: a flat, angular lifting shape, unlike traditional aircraft which use distinct lift-generating...

This drag force occurs in airplanes due to wings or a lifting body redirecting air to cause lift and also in cars with airfoil wings that redirect air...

as AEREON 26) was an experimental aircraft developed to investigate lifting body design with a view to using its shape to create hybrid designs, part...

physical explanation that the air density is too low for a lifting body to generate meaningful lift force without exceeding orbital velocity. In most industrial...

The Northrop M2-F3 is a heavyweight lifting body rebuilt from the Northrop M2-F2 after it crashed at the Dryden Flight Research Center in 1967. It was...

Rajat Dalal (born 12 January 1996) is an Indian power lifter, body builder, and fitness influencer. He won several medals in powerlifting for India in...

sailplanes. On May 10, 1967, during the sixteenth glide flight of a lifting body Northrop M2-F2, a landing accident severely damaged the vehicle and seriously...

services to the International Space Station (ISS), based on decades of lifting body programs. Under the Commercial Orbital Transportation System (COTS) program...

flights in order to study the handling qualities and stability of the lifting body in flight. Early experimental aircraft, such as the X-1 and X-2, were...