lifting body

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The strange craft was the Air Force SV-5D, an experimental forerunner of a larger, manned "lifting body" that scientists believe will be equally at home in space and in the atmosphere.

From Time Magazine Archive

The yielding of a muscle, in all that straining, lifting body, might have ruined us.

From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore