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Flexible thermoelectrics
Flexible thermoelectrics are thermoelectric materials and devices that convert heat into electricity or pump heat for cooling while bending and stretching to fit curved heat sources.
Flexible wing
A flexible wing is an aircraft wing whose shape is set by aerodynamic loads against its own elasticity, from Rogallo hang glider wings to flexible transport flaps.
Flexible-fuel vehicle
A flexible-fuel vehicle (FFV), also called a flex-fuel vehicle, is a car or light truck that runs on gasoline or ethanol-gasoline blends up to 83% ethanol, including E85.
Flexjet
Flexjet is a fractional private jet ownership and leasing company in Richmond Heights, Ohio, founded in 1995 as a Bombardier venture and owned by Directional Aviation since 2013.
Flexographic printing
Flexographic printing is a rotary relief process, essentially a rotating rubber stamp, using flexible rubber or photopolymer plates to print fast-drying ink on films, labels, and corrugated board.
Flexography
Flexography, commonly called flexo, is a relief printing process, derived from letterpress, that uses flexible plates and fluid inks to print packaging and labels, first developed in 1890.
Flexport
Flexport is a San Francisco-based digital freight forwarder and customs broker founded by Ryan Petersen in 2013, arranging ocean, air, rail, and trucking freight through software.
FlexRay
FlexRay is a deterministic, fault-tolerant, high-speed communications protocol for in-vehicle networks developed by an automotive consortium, first used in the 2007 BMW X5 for electronic damper control.
Flexural test
A flexural test applies a bending load to a beam specimen to measure flexural strength, modulus, and stress–strain behavior, mainly for characterization and quality control.
FLiBe
FLiBe is a molten salt of lithium fluoride and beryllium fluoride, developed at Oak Ridge in the 1940s and now a leading coolant and tritium breeder for fusion blankets.
Flickr-Faces-HQ
Flickr-Faces-HQ (FFHQ) is a dataset of 70,000 high-quality photographs of human faces, created by NVIDIA and introduced in 2018 as a benchmark for generative adversarial networks.
Flickr30k
Flickr30k is a benchmark dataset for sentence-based image description, containing 31,783 photographs from Flickr with five crowdsourced captions each, introduced by University of Illinois researchers in 2014 and widely used for image-text retrieval.
Flight (2012 film)
Flight is a 2012 American drama directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Denzel Washington as a pilot who crash-lands a jet and faces scrutiny over his toxicology report.
Flight (opera)
Flight is a 1998 comic opera in three acts by Jonathan Dove, with a libretto by April de Angelis, set in an airport where a Refugee without papers is stranded.
Flight 19
Flight 19 was a group of five US Navy TBM Avenger bombers that disappeared off Florida in 1945 with 14 airmen, becoming a Bermuda Triangle legend.
Flight 7500
Flight 7500 is a 2014 American supernatural horror film, also titled 7500, directed by Takashi Shimizu and written by Craig Rosenberg, about deadly phenomena aboard a Los Angeles-to-Tokyo jumbo jet; distinct from the 2019 hijacking thriller 7500.
Flight airspeed record
The flight airspeed record, also called the world air speed record, is the aircraft speed record officially ratified by the FAI. A 1976 SR-71 flight holds the absolute record at 3,529.56 km/h.
Flight altitude record
A flight altitude record is the greatest height above sea level reached by an aircraft, certified by the FAI or held unofficially; records are set per class of aircraft.
Flight attendant
A flight attendant, also called an airline stewardess or air hostess, is an airline crew member responsible for passenger safety and security, with service as a secondary duty.
Flight bag
A flight bag is a piece of hand luggage for air travel, either an airline-branded passenger souvenir bag or a pilot's bag for charts and equipment.
Flight control surfaces
Flight control surfaces, also called aerodynamic control surfaces, are the movable parts of an aircraft, such as ailerons, elevators, and rudders, that control roll, pitch, and yaw.
Flight controller
A flight controller is a trained specialist who monitors and commands a spacecraft's systems from the ground; NASA flight controllers at Johnson Space Center in Houston support crewed missions from launch through landing.
Flight deck
A flight deck is the flat upper surface of an aircraft carrier where aircraft are launched and recovered at sea, combining runway, apron, and control area.
Flight Design
Flight Design is a German light aircraft manufacturer founded by Matthias Betsch in 1988 near Stuttgart, best known for the CT series of two-seat composite light-sport aircraft.
Flight dispatcher
A flight dispatcher, known in US regulation as the aircraft dispatcher, is a licensed airline employee who shares legal operational control of a flight with the pilot in command.
Flight distance record
A flight distance record is an FAI-ratified figure for the farthest an aircraft has flown without landing or refuelling, or over a closed course; the 2006 record is 41,467.53 km.
Flight endurance record
A flight endurance record, also called a flight duration record, marks the longest time an aircraft has stayed continuously airborne; the crewed record of 64 days was set in 1959.
Flight engineer
A flight engineer, sometimes called a second officer, is a licensed flight crew member who manages an aircraft's systems and engines, a role largely automated away in the 1980s.
Flight envelope protection
Flight envelope protection is a flight control system function that prevents an aircraft from exceeding critical limits such as airspeed, angle of attack, and load factor.
Flight information service
A flight information service (FIS) is an air traffic service giving advice and information for safe, efficient flights; pilots remain responsible for collision avoidance, unlike under air traffic control.