coleopter

Instead, Hiller approached the Navy with the idea of building a full coleopter design.

He can't get a good infrared signature from the coleopter's bow and so the heat-seekers won't be lucky, either.

-because the coleopter comes out of its bank and heads right for the panzer's exhaust.

The Lerche was an early coleopter design.

The coleopter type has an annular wing forming a duct around a lift rotor.

The first design of an aircraft clearly using the coleopter concept was developed during World War II.

A coleopter, turbines throbbing inside the rotating shrouds that top the stubby wing tips.

For the boss a coleopter, pondant, partifesswise, blazoned sinister, at the slough, proper.

New Scientist: The Coleopter - a revolutionary experimental aircraft (5 February 1959)

A coleopter is a type of vertical take-off and landing aircraft design that uses a ducted fan as the primary fuselage of the entire aircraft.

Cowboy's missiles leap from his remaining pod, the port turbine explodes with red energy, and the coleopter whimpers in metallic pain and corkscrews in.

Sweet Judy Snakeyes crumbles in front of the armored skirts, then a coleopter named Death from Above, then another called Hanging Judge.

The coleopter staggers as it tries to maintain its position, but it's too close to the earth to stall in hopes of losing momentum and its flaps are already fully deployed.

The cereal leaf beetle (Oulema melanopus or Lema melanopa) is a coleopter, belonging to the family of Chrysomelidae, and an agricultural pest and biological control success story.

Tiltrotor aircraft (such as the V-22 Osprey), tiltwing, tailsitter, and coleopter aircraft have their rotors/propellers horizontal for vertical flight and vertical for forward flight.

Convair selected the coleopter layout for their Model 49 proposal, entered into the Advanced Aerial Fire Support System (AAFSS).

Similar to a coleopter fixed-wing aircraft, the Triebflügel was intended to take off and land on its tail, rotating on the pitch axis after takeoff and acceleration for forward flight.

The Hiller VXT-8 Coleopter was a proposed annular wing VTOL aircraft designed in the United States in the late 1950s, inspired by the French SNECMA Coléoptère.

The insect escaped him while playing with him, and soon, arrived under the fresh branches, it arose, after throwing into Cousin Benedict's ear, which it touched lightly, the most intense but also the most ironical buzzing of its coleopter wings.

The second in the series had much success at an international air display in Le Bourget, in Paris, and the third became a full-scale coleopter in its own right, due to numerous improvements and alterations made to the model.

"An insect which is neither a coleopter, nor a neuropteran, nor a hymenopter; which does not belong to any of the ten orders recognized by savants, and which they will be rather tempted to rank in the second section of the arachnides.

Cowboy is airborne as he floats across the crest of a rise, and a tug on the controls slews the skimming panzer to starboard just as the coleopter triggers a weapons pod and half a dozen shaped-charge rockets set the hemp ablaze.

Cowboy hopes to find a window to launch another missile, but the blazing fuel just over the rise is confusing his sensors and the coleopter suddenly banks into a swift turn, scattering thermite decoys that burn like miniature parachute suns, and the window that fluttered open for a second is gone.

In that case, Cowboy will have to go after the coleopter; but on the other hand, radar is still hopelessly confused and the coleopter can't tell the infrared of the panzer from that of the wreck, and this is Cowboy's chance to fly.