Lifting body
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A lifting body is a fixed-wing aircraft 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.
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- Related: BOR-4, Kliper, HL-20 Personnel Launch System, Dream Chaser (spacecraft), Prometheus (spacecraft), Facetmobile, Blended wing body, Flying wing, MUSTARD
| Lifting Bodies Fact Sheet (NASA) Lifting Bodies Fact Sheet (NASA) www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/news/FactSheets/FS-011-DFRC.html - Web |
| NASA Tech Paper 3101: Numerical Analysis and Simul... NASA Tech Paper 3101: Numerical Analysis and Simulation of an Assured Crew Return Vehicle Flow Field ntrs.nasa.gov/.../19920000943_1992000943.pdf - Web |
| HL-10 HL-10 www.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/HL-10/ - Web |
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| M2-F1 M2-F1 www.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/M2-F1/ - Web |
| M2-F2 M2-F2 www.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/M2-F2/ - Web |
| M2-F3 M2-F3 www.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/M2-F3/ - Web |
| X-24A and X24B X-24A and X24B www.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/X-24/ - Web |
| Short M2-F1 history Short M2-F1 history members.lycos.co.uk/derekhorne/m2f1.html - Web |
| Some history of lifting body flight Some history of lifting body flight www.centennialofflight.gov/.../Tech29.htm - Web |
| Wingless Flight: The Lifting Body Story. NASA Hist... Wingless Flight: The Lifting Body Story. NASA History Series SP-4220 1997 PDF ntrs.nasa.gov/.../19980169231_1998082126.pdf - Web |
