lifting body

noun

Aeronautics.

1. an aircraft or spacecraft configuration in which there are no wings, and lift is obtained by aerodynamic forces on its body.

lifting body

noun

1. a wingless aircraft or spacecraft that derives its aerodynamic lift from the shape of its body

Example Sentences

This is more like the X-24 Lifting Body from 1963.

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Europe has produced one or two re-entry capsule systems in the past, but the IXV's complex "lifting body" is new territory.

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Sierra Nevada had the most novel entry, a winged, lifting body vehicle strongly reminiscent of NASA's space shuttle.

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The re-usable "lifting body" will spend about a day in orbit before returning to a landing strip on the US West Coast.

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

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