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...hutdown of the orbiter's main engines). Following the simulated abort, the flight crew was briefed on emergency egress procedures and use of the fixed servic ...er shuttle missions, and Apollo missions, the test would conclude with the flight crew evacuating the launch pad by use of these emergency systems, but this ...

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...right|Parallel vertical forces acting on an airplane in straight and level flight. Lift from the main wing (Pz) is balanced by the weight of the airplane (m ...tion. Another example are the major vertical forces on an [[airplane]] in flight (see image at right). ...

...-71 LASRE cold test.jpg|thumb|LASRE cold test dumping water after first in-flight cold flow test - 4 March 1998]] ...Base]], California, until November 1998. The experiment sought to provide flight data to help [[Lockheed Martin]] validate and tune the computational predic ...

The static [[buoyancy]] of [[airship]]s in flight is not constant. It is therefore necessary to control the altitude of an ai * Changes in ballast (for example, during a flight maneuver or the dropping of ballast) ...

...RAT will power vital systems (flight controls, linked hydraulics and also flight-critical instrumentation).<ref name="FAA-H-8083-31__ch12_RAT">{{cite web|ti ...] (VAQ-134). They are not retracted, staying deployed continuously during flight.<ref>{{cite web |title=ALQ-99 Tactical Jamming System |publisher=[[U.S.Navy ...

...ted events (such as new wind directions) which may occur on the way to the flight's destination.{{citation needed|date=November 2014}} ...

.../view/1946/1946%20-%200353.html|title=goblin - lb - flight - 1946 - 0353 - Flight Archive|publisher=}}</ref> ...htglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1969/1969%20-%203201.html|title=1969 - 3201 - Flight Archive|publisher=}}</ref> The engine mounting arrangement had to be revise ...

...actually is. This was frequently cited by detractors of [[heavier-than-air flight]] to "prove" it was impossible or impractical. ...isbn=978-0-486-43485-8 |language=en}}</ref><ref>Richard P. Hallion. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity through the First World War. Oxfor ...

...cks''', are devices used to remove [[static electricity]] from aircraft in flight. They take the form of small sticks pointing backwards from the wings, and *[[Pan Am Flight 214]] ...

...an [[active radar seeker]] (i.e. a transmitter) and rarely the missile's [[Flight control surfaces|control surfaces]]. Control surface [[actuator]]s for a hi ...e]]s have the longest flight times (being long-ranged, yet also slowest in flight); however, these also have engines that are capable of driving a more conve ...

...[[NASA]] Institute for Advanced Concepts, for application to flapping wing flight.<ref>{{Citation |url=http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/studies/abstracts/1121M ...

XROMM can be used to model such movements as birds in flight, humans running, frogs jumping, and a toad swallowing its prey.<ref name=To ...

...t in 2013, NASA continues a small investment testing by private companies. Flight-ready Stirling-based units are not expected before 2028. ...irling {{sic|Conve|rtor|nolink=y}}]. (PDF) NASA GRC. March 1, 2016.</ref> Flight-ready units based on Stirling technology are not expected until 2028.<ref n ...

[[File:F-35 Heritage Flight Team performs in Bell Fort Worth Alliance AirShow.jpg|upright=1.5|thumb|A [ ...m generates forward thrust when air is pushed in the direction opposite to flight. This can be done by different means such as the spinning blades of a [[Pro ...

...llating flow. A high angle of attack causes a condition known as "[[Stall (flight)|stall]]" in which the airfoil loses lift. The efficiency of the Wells turb ...

...sup>2</sup>) - A measure of a body's ability to overcome air resistance in flight. BC is a function of mass, diameter, and drag coefficient. ...

...:Cover Canada 1932 Rae air.jpg|right|thumb|A cover carried on a 1932 first flight in the north woods of Canada, with a cachet and franked with both a regular ...6, 1912 SAAM-1974.28.98 1.jpg|thumb|Study for ''The First Official Airmail Flight'' (1941), mural by [[Dorothea Mierisch]] at the post office in [[McLeansbor ...

...this type is on outdoor display on the grounds of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville Alabama. ...h]] (CSULB) and [[Garvey Spacecraft Corporation]] successfully conducted a flight test of a liquid-propellant powered aerospike engine in the [[Mojave Desert ...

...ef>{{cite book|last=Yechout|first=Thomas R.|title=Introduction to Aircraft Flight Mechanics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a_c2V0zAFwcC&pg=PA51|year=2 ...