vertical-lift engine
1Lift jet — A lift jet is a jet engine angled to provide an aircraft with aerostatic (i.e., not requiring the movement of air over an airfoil) lift instead of (or in addition to) thrust. On a fixed wing aircraft, lift jets may be installed as auxiliary… …
2Vertical/Short Takeoff and Landing — Vertical/Short Take Off and Landing (V/STOL) is a term used to describe aircraft that are able to take off or land vertically or on short runways. Most were experiments or outright failures from the 1950s to 1970s. Vertical takeoff and landing… …
3Lift hill — Goliath (2002), in Walibi Holland of the Netherlands, has a 150 foot (45.7 meter) lift hill. A lift hill, or chain hill, is often the initial upward sloping section of track on a typical roller coaster that initially transports the… …
4Engine indicating and crew alerting system — An example of information found on a EICAS Engine Indicating and Crew Alerting System (EICAS) is an integrated system used in modern aircraft to provide aircraft crew with aircraft engines and other systems instrumentation and crew annunciations …
5lift fan — A turbofan engine installed in such a way that it can be swiveled to direct its thrust in a vertical direction. Lift fans are used in V/STOL (vertical/short takeoff and landing) aircraft …
6Boat lift — A boat lift, ship lift, or lift lock is a machine for transporting boats between water at two different elevations, and is an alternative to the canal lock and the canal inclined plane.It may be either vertically moving, like the ship lifts in… …
7jet engine — an engine, as an aircraft engine, that produces forward motion by the rearward exhaust of a jet of fluid or heated air and gases. Also called jet, jet motor. [1940 45] * * * Any of a class of internal combustion engines that propel aircraft by… …
8Powered lift — A powered lift (also written powered lift) is a type of aircraft that can take off and land vertically but functions differently than a helicopter in horizontal flight.DefinitionIn the United States, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has… …
9Newcomen steam engine — Animation of a schematic Newcomen steam engine. – Steam is shown pink and water is blue. – Valves move from open (green) to closed (red) The atmospheric engine invented by Thomas Newcomen in 1712, today referred to as a Newcomen steam engine (or… …
10Anderton Boat Lift — The Anderton Boat Lift near the village of Anderton, Cheshire, in north west England provides a convert|50|ft|m|1 vertical link between two navigable waterways: the River Weaver and the Trent and Mersey Canal.Built in 1875, the boat lift was in… …
