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  • The Liberty Lifter is a U.S. military Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) project, launched in mid-2022, to develop a low-cost seaplane that...
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    different criteria, such as lift type, aircraft propulsion (if any), usage and others. Flying model craft and stories of manned flight go back many centuries;...
    53 KB (5,938 words) - 01:31, 21 August 2024
  • lift is in sport and recreation. The three air sports that use soaring flight are: gliding, hang gliding and paragliding. Energy can be gained by using...
    10 KB (1,237 words) - 23:15, 29 November 2023
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    flight, or spacecraft re-entry. All of these flight regimes pose challenges for proper flight safety. Lifting bodies were a major area of research in the...
    21 KB (2,478 words) - 05:22, 13 July 2024
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    (i.e. air flight or aviation) or through the vacuum of outer space (i.e. spaceflight). This can be achieved by generating aerodynamic lift associated...
    35 KB (4,200 words) - 16:06, 8 September 2024
  • paraglider pilots for soaring flight Lift (data mining), a measure of the performance of a model at segmenting the population Lift (web framework), a web application...
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    Stephen (23 May 2011). "Skunk Works P-791 airship revived as civil cargo-lifter". Flight Global. Wells, Jane (30 March 2016). "Lockheed has liftoff: Sells new...
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    Angels Flight is a landmark and historic 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge funicular railway in the Bunker Hill district of Downtown Los Angeles, California...
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    aircraft is used to maintain altitude or controlled flight with wings stalled by replacing lost wing lift with engine or propeller thrust, thereby giving...
    55 KB (7,278 words) - 18:28, 15 September 2024
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    lifting surfaces. Some types, such as helicopters, are capable of vertical takeoff and landing. An aircraft which uses rotor lift for vertical flight...
    13 KB (1,473 words) - 01:52, 14 September 2024
  • engines did not have the reliability nor the power to lift the required fuel to make a transatlantic flight. There were difficulties navigating over the featureless...
    95 KB (10,500 words) - 13:08, 20 August 2024
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    fundamentals of bird flight are similar to those of aircraft, in which the aerodynamic forces sustaining flight are lift, drag, and thrust. Lift force is produced...
    47 KB (5,627 words) - 12:15, 29 June 2024
  • steal half a billion dollar worth of gold bullion aboard a passenger flight. Lift was released on Netflix on January 12, 2024. Cyrus, a renowned international...
    14 KB (1,364 words) - 12:42, 31 August 2024
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    Aircraft flight control surfaces are aerodynamic devices allowing a pilot to adjust and control the aircraft's flight attitude. Development of an effective...
    21 KB (2,679 words) - 12:53, 17 July 2024
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    straight and level flight, most of the lift opposes gravity. However, when an aircraft is climbing, descending, or banking in a turn the lift is tilted with...
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    (23 March 2011). "Skunk Works P-791 airship revived as civil cargo-lifter". Flight Global. Retrieved 9 April 2020. "Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence...
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  • Bibcode:2004AIAAJ..42..315T. doi:10.2514/1.9095. Lifter efficiency relation to ion velocity "J L Naudin’s Lifter-3 pulsed HV 1.13g/Watt" Archived 2014-08-08...
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  • Indian Airlines Flight 814, commonly known as IC 814, was an Indian Airlines Airbus A300 that was hijacked on 24 December 1999 by five members of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen...
    69 KB (6,944 words) - 09:25, 16 September 2024
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    behind China's Long March. Falcon Heavy made its first flight. 2018 was the first year when more flight-proved boosters flew (13) than new ones (10). Shotwell...
    264 KB (14,476 words) - 01:00, 12 September 2024
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    may not provide en route care. CASEVACs are commonly referred to as "a lift/flight of opportunity". If a corpsman/medic on the ground calls for a CASEVAC...
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