Low Altitude Parachute Extraction System — (LAPES) is a tactical military airlift delivery method where a fixed wing cargo aircraft can deposit supplies when landing is not an option in an area that is too small to accurately parachute supplies from a high altitude.This method was… … Wikipedia
Low Altitude Parachute Extraction System — M551 Sheridan wird aus einer C 130 Hercules abgeworfen Das Low Altitude Parachute Extraction System (LAPES) (engl.: Fallschirm Herausziehen in geringer Höhe) ist eine militärische Methode, um aus einem Starrflügler Lasten abzusetzen, wenn eine… … Deutsch Wikipedia
low-altitude parachute extraction system — A low level, self contained system capable of delivering heavy loads into an area where air landing is not feasible from an optimum aircraft wheel altitude of 5 to 10 feet above ground level. One or more platforms may be dropped. Also called… … Military dictionary
extraction parachute — i. A parachute that extracts a load from the aircraft and deploys the main parachute. ii. A parachute that extracts a load from the aircraft in a low altitude extraction system … Aviation dictionary
Extraction of petroleum — Pumpjack on an oil well in Texas The extraction of petroleum is the process by which usable petroleum is extracted and removed from the earth. Contents 1 … Wikipedia
Liquid-liquid extraction — Liquid liquid extraction, also known as solvent extraction and partitioning, is a method to separate compounds based on their relative solubilities in two different immiscible liquids, usually water and an organic solvent. It is an of a substance … Wikipedia
Delayed extraction — with laser desorption ionization. Top: the laser fires at t=0 forming a fast red ion and slow blue ion of the same m/z, Middle: the red ion takes the lead since it has a greater velocity (and kinetic energy) but since it is farther from the… … Wikipedia
Information extraction — In natural language processing, information extraction (IE) is a type of information retrieval whose goal is to automatically extract structured information, i.e. categorized and contextually and semantically well defined data from a certain… … Wikipedia
Oil shale extraction — is an industrial process in which kerogen mdash;a mixture of organic chemical compounds (including hydrocarbons) found in oil shale mdash;is converted into synthetic crude oil through pyrolysis. In pyrolysis, oil shale is heated in the absence of … Wikipedia
Resource extraction in the Democratic Republic of Congo — The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo, or DRC) is a nation full of complexity and seeming contradictions. The DRC, previously known as Zaire, is rich in natural resources ($24 trillion of minerals, by one estimate), species diversity,… … Wikipedia
Supercritical fluid extraction — (SFE) is the process of separating one component (the extractant) from another (the matrix) using supercritical fluids as the extracting solvent. Extraction is usually from a solid matrix, but can also be from liquids. SFE can be used as a sample … Wikipedia