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lifting
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 safety.
Lifting bodies were a major area of research in the 1960s and 70s as a means to build a small and lightweight crewed 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 crewed 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.
Advanced spaceplane concepts in the 1990s and 2000s did use lifting-body designs. Examples include the HL-20 Personnel Launch System (1990) and the Prometheus spaceplane (2010). The Dream Chaser lifting-body spaceplane, an extension of HL-20 technology, was proposed as one of three vehicles to potentially carry US crew to and from the International Space Station, but eventually was selected as a resupply vehicle instead. In 2015 the ESA Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle performed the first ever successful reentry of a lifting body spacecraft.
I've got another fine specimen of Swedish Industrial Engineering...😅
Here is a Gunnebo UKN10 10 TON Weld-On Lifting Hook made in Sweden.
These things are super heavy duty, and this one is in great condition.
Hopefully someone here can use it before I toss it up on Ebay. 😊
Asking $250 OBO.
Or...
Good condition 16kg (35lb) Competition Style Kettlebell.
Asking $50 cash. Open to trade for glock/2011 magazines, 9mm ammo, clothes, kitchen gear, electronics, tools, or baby stuff (expecting in April). Cash adjustments as needed.
POWERT Competition Kettlebell https://a.co/d/2GppVnf