English Explanatory Dictionary

centre of lift

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. That point on an aircraft where all the various lifting forces act. If the centre or lift is not coincident with the centre of gravity on the fore/aft axis, the plane will pitch, if not coincident on the lateral axis, it will roll.

Word forms

centre of lift centres of lift center of lift

Synonyms

COL
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on C Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary