In addition to releasing toxin, the cane toad is capable of inflating its lungs, puffing up and lifting its body off the ground to appear taller and larger to a potential predator.

The design uses an automobile-type lifting body fuselage and automotive suspension.

When used as a lifting element on a " hydrofoil " boat, this upward force lifts the body of the vessel, decreasing drag and increasing speed.

The show featured acts reviving traditional sideshow stunts and carrying some of them to extremes, and " fringe " artists ( often exhibiting extreme body modification ) performing bizarre or masochistic acts like eating insects, lifting weights by means of hooks inserted in their body piercings, or stapling currency to their forehead.

The background story of the original novel and the later series is the crash of former astronaut Steve Austin in a “ lifting body ” craft, shown in the opening credits of the show.

( The lifting body craft mostly shown was a Northrop M2-F2 ; however, in the episode " The Deadly Replay ," a Northrop HL-10, identified as such in dialog, was used.

The opposite of this is a lifting body which has no wings, though it may have small stabilising and control surfaces.

In contrast to a flying wing, which is a wing with minimal or no conventional fuselage, a lifting body can be thought of as a fuselage with little or no conventional wing.

The US built a number of famous lifting body rocket planes to test the concept, as well as several rocket-launched re-entry vehicles that were tested over the Pacific.

In the late 1950s, and because the ruling body ( BAWLtyA ) were only interested in the development of Olympic lifting, a breakaway organization called the Society of Amateur Weightlifters had been formed to cater for the interests of lifters who were not particularly interested in doing Olympic lifting.

This is only necessary for major maintenance work that requires lifting of the car body, as the Waterloo depot is fully equipped for routine maintenance work.

" Static air-and spacecraft displays on the Academy grounds include an F-4, F-15, F-16 and F-105 on the Terrazzo ; a B-52 by the North Gate ; a T-38 and A-10 at the airfield ; an F-100 by the preparatory school ; a SV-5J lifting body next to the aeronautics laboratory ; and a Minuteman III missile in front of the Fieldhouse.

Multi-Unit Space Transport And Recovery Device ( MUSTARD ) was a proposed launch system consisting of three reusable lifting body craft operating together.

Examples include NASA's experimental lifting body designs and the Vought XF5U-1 Flying Flapjack.

This involves the rafter holding the webbing on the underside of the raft, and pushing their knees into the outer tube, and then lifting their body out of the water, leaning back to overturn the raft.

A lifting body is a fixed-wing aircraft configuration in which the body itself produces lift.

In contrast to a flying wing, which is a wing with minimal or no conventional fuselage, a lifting body can be thought of as a fuselage with little or no conventional wing.

The US built a number of famous lifting body rocket planes to test the concept, as well as several rocket-launched re-entry vehicles that were tested over the Pacific.

He has written pieces on lifting body development ( The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed ), the United States Merchant Marine ( Looking for a Ship ), farmers ' markets ( Giving Good Weight ), freight transportation ( Uncommon Carriers ), the shifting flow of the Mississippi River ( The Control of Nature ), geology ( in several books ), as well as a short book entirely on the subject of oranges.

Upon graduation in 1972, he became an Air Force test pilot, logging thousands of hours of flight time in dozens of aircraft, including the Boeing 747, the experimental X-24B lifting body, the F-111 Aardvark, and the gigantic C-5 Galaxy.

By lifting the seat upwards a little, the weight is taken off the neck and the back is kept rounded.

Heavy lifting is done by machines such as overhead cranes or fork lifts.

Offshore anchorage is sparse and intermittent, but poses no problem to sailboats designed for the ice, typically with lifting keels and long shorelines.

Adiabatic cooling occurs in the Earth's atmosphere with orographic lifting and lee waves, and this can form pileus or lenticular clouds if the air is cooled below the dew point.

There is no set template for what such a vehicle will look like, yet likely features include a large dozer blade or mine ploughs, a large calibre demolition cannon, augers, winches, excavator arms and cranes or lifting booms.

She is recorded to have used implements such as whips, canes and birches, to chastise and punish her male clients, as well as the Berkley Horse, a specially designed flogging machine, and a pulley suspension system for lifting them off the floor.

While this method, now known as the triboelectric effect, is capable of lifting light objects and even generating sparks, it is extremely inefficient.

She also has a crane that is capable of lifting 10 tonnes at 7 m. She also visits some of the smaller islands.

Freebandy is a sport that developed in the 2000s from floorball fanatics who specialize in a technique called " zorro ", which involves lifting the ball onto a stick and allowing air resistance and fast movements to keep the ball " stuck " to the stick.

The work is also interesting for showing the many water mills used in mining, such as the machine for lifting men and material into and out of a mine shaft.

Black powder is also used in fireworks for lifting shells, in rockets as fuel, and in certain special effects.

A well-known but minor use is as a lifting gas in balloons and airships.

Hail is also much more common along mountain ranges because mountains force horizontal winds upwards ( known as orographic lifting ), thereby intensifying the updrafts within thunderstorms and making hail more likely .< ref >

A useful analogy is to consider a self-intersecting curve on the plane ; self-intersections can be eliminated by lifting one strand off the plane.

Jacobus de Voragine, compiling his Legenda Aurea ( Golden Legend ) before the competition arose, characterized Mary Magdalene as the emblem of penitence, washing the feet of Jesus with her copious tears ( although it is now believed that Mary of Bethany was the woman known for washing or anointing the feet of Jesus ) protectress of pilgrims to Jerusalem, daily lifting by angels at the meal hour in her fasting retreat and many other miraculous happenings in the genre of Romance, ending with her death in the oratory of Saint Maximin, all disingenuously claimed to have been drawn from the histories of Hegesippus and of Josephus.

Even though ozone in the lower tropical stratosphere is produced at a very slow rate, the lifting circulation is so slow that ozone can build up to relatively high levels by the time it reaches.

It is not unusual for paper cards to become bent quickly, as players often read their " hole " cards by peeking at the corner rather than lifting the card.

Separation of the deck is done simply lifting up half the cards with the right hand thumb slightly and pushing the left hand's packet forward away from the right hand.

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In the basic mouldboard plough the depth of the cut is adjusted by lifting against the runner in the furrow, which limited the weight of the plough to what the ploughman could easily lift.

These commonly have between two and as many as seven mouldboards – and semi-mounted ploughs ( the lifting of which is supplemented by a wheel about halfway along their length ) can have as many as eighteen mouldboards.