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    Aircraft carrier air operations include a launch and recovery cycle of embarked aircraft. Launch and recovery cycles are scheduled to support efficient use...
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    Aircrew Cyclic operations refers to the launch and recovery cycle for aircraft in groups or "cycles". Launching and recovering aircraft aboard aircraft carriers...
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    HAL TEDBF HAL Tejas Naval Shenyang J-35 F/A-XX Escort carrier Launch and recovery cycle Modern United States Navy carrier air operations Naval aviation...
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  • Laser supported detonation wave – Lateral control system (LCS) – Launch and recovery cycle – Leading-edge extension (LEVCON) – Lift (force) – Lift-induced...
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    of aircraft carriers and induced further refinement of their launch and recovery cycle leading to several design variants. The USA built small escort...
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    An angled deck also improves launch and recovery cycle flexibility with the option of simultaneous launching and recovery of aircraft. Conventional ("tailhook")...
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    part of the deck and recovered on the after part. This allowed increased complements but resulted in a lengthened launch and recovery cycle as aircraft were...
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    of convergent evolution to improve launch and recovery cycle flexibility by allowing simultaneous launch and recovery of aircraft. Akagi's main flight deck...
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    forward of the main flight deck. The flying-off deck improved launch and recovery cycle flexibility until new fighters requiring longer takeoff rolls...
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    HMS Glorious (category Ships built by Harland and Wolff)
    forward of the main flight deck. The lower flying-off deck improved launch and recovery cycle flexibility until heavier fighters requiring longer takeoff rolls...
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    converging in separate attempts to improve launch and recovery cycle flexibility by allowing simultaneous launch and recovery of aircraft. Kaga's main flight deck...
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    place for use by small aircraft like fighters which improved launch and recovery cycle flexibility allowing the ship to simultaneously land aircraft...
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    following: Waste heat recovery is one of the most important development fields for the organic Rankine cycle (ORC). It can be applied to heat and power plants...
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    completed six transits of the Suez Canal and completed approximately 11,000 aircraft launch and recovery cycles. Saddam Hussein claimed on Iraqi television...
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  • Atlantic Theater aircraft carrier operations during World War II (category Naval battles and operations of World War II)
    had not launched bombers to protect her from such warships, perhaps in part because of inability to sustain an effective launch and recovery cycle with her...
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    SpaceX Merlin (category Rocket engines using the gas-generator cycle)
    rocket propellants in a gas-generator power cycle. The Merlin engine was originally designed for sea recovery and reuse, but since 2016 the entire Falcon...
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    facilitate the "safe and expeditious recovery" of naval aircraft aboard aircraft carriers. LSOs aboard smaller air capable ships that launch and recover helicopters...
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    flight to water, no recovery SpaceX declared success Future launches are listed chronologically when firm plans are in place. Launches are expected to take...
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    Rocket Lab Electron (category Expendable space launch systems)
    reusability was pursued to meet launch demands. To counteract decreased payload capacity caused by the added mass of recovery hardware, performance improvements...
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    society and human history as progressing in some new, unique direction(s), sociological cycle theory argues that events and stages of society and history...
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    engines vent directly below the launch pad. The Raptor engine uses a full-flow staged combustion cycle with oxygen and methane-rich turbopumps. Before...
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    SpaceX (category Commercial launch service providers)
    oxygen and liquid methane-fueled full-flow staged combustion cycle engines to power the first and second stages of the in-development Starship launch system...
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    oxygen and kerosene or methane and liquid oxygen for the SCE-200 engine, which runs on an oxidizer-rich closed combustion engine cycle. The first launch is...
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    understanding of lunar water and the Moon's water cycle. The mission failed as contact was never established with spacecraft after launch. On March 13, Intuitive...
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  • Alpha strike (United States Navy) (category Military slang and jargon)
    aircraft (a launch and recovery is a complete cycle) on a prescribed schedule. Several factors will contribute to the length of a cycle depending on...
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    Multiple Launch Rocket System". Warfare History Network. Archived from the original on 31 October 2018. U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management...
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    for motor use, launch site selection, launch methods, launcher placement, recovery system design and deployment and more. Since the early 1960s, a copy...
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    Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility (category NASA groups, organizations, and centers)
    determines the launch site based on scientific goals, and provides local preparation facilities, a balloon(s), launch and recovery vehicles, and personnel...
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    segment, new avionics, and lighter insulation, but lack a parachute recovery system, as they will not be recovered after launch. The propellants for the...
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    A kinetic energy recovery system (KERS) is an automotive system for recovering a moving vehicle's kinetic energy under braking. The recovered energy is...
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