Lifting Body Hull

A Lifting Body Hull is a kind of ship structure, fuselage, chassis, or hull.

• It is a kind of Ship Equipment and a kind of Hull.

Description (Specifications)

A Lifting Body Hull is a hull with integral lifting surfaces to support maneuver in atmospheres. It is the most efficient of hulls with an atmospheric capability. A Lifting Body receives the flight benefits of wings, but not fins or rudders.

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1. A common hull type.
   

CBPUSAL Function Designation Streamlining Spectrum

The Imperial Ship Builders Association (ISBA) qualifies modern naval hulls across this spectrum:

1. C. Cluster. An accumulation of compartments.
2. B. Braced Cluster. Structured for higher acceleration.
3. P. Planetoid. A hollowed nickel-iron asteroid.
4. U. Unstreamlined. Protrusions increase drag.
5. S. Streamlined. Cowlings and fairings decrease drag.
6. A. Airframe. Winged for performance in atmosphere.
7. L. Lifting Body. Radically streamlined lifting-surfaces.

History & Background (Dossier)

A Lifting Body Hull combine the conventional properties of a traditional lifting surface, the wing, with a fuselage in an integrated manner that can can create greater lift than either surface alone.

Selected Craft Using Lifting Body Hulls

2 Representative Lifting Body Hull configuration ships
Class Superclass Tons TL Origin G Jump Illustration Canon Class Superclass Tons TL Origin G Jump Illustration Canon Fat Cat class Far Trader AF 300 14 Third Imperium 2 2 yes Yes Type J class Seeker JJ 100 10 Third Imperium 2 2 Yes Yes

References & Contributors (Sources)

This page uses content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Lifting_body. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. The text of Wikipedia is available under the Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Marc Miller. T5 Core Rules (Far Future Enterprises, 2013), 332.
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science