Wiktionary
alt. 1 (context aviation English) An aerobatic maneuver consisting of 1/4 looping up, wingover (left or right), 1/2 looping down+up, wingover (right or left), 1/4 looping down. 2 The symbol (term ∞ Translingual) or anything of the same shape. n. 1 (context aviation English) An aerobatic maneuver consisting of 1/4 looping up, wingover (left or right), 1/2 looping down+up, wingover (right or left), 1/4 looping down. 2 The symbol (term ∞ Translingual) or anything of the same shape.
Wikipedia
Lazy Eight or Lazy 8 may refer to:
- The infinity symbol (∞), often described as a horizontal figure eight
- An aerobatic maneuver consisting of 1/4 looping up, wingover (left or right), 1/2 looping down+up, wingover (right or left), 1/4 looping down
- VistaVision, a high resolution 35mm film format
- Lazy 8 Studios, an independent game developer
Usage examples of "lazy eight".
I've been in the habit of patronizing The Chuck Wagon in Lazy Eight Spread at radius ninety-they have square dancing.
He had already chosen the Lazy Eight III, the only interstellar ship on the field.
They couldn't just offer to sell me the present position of the Lazy Eight II.
At twenty thousand feet in the thin air over Kunashir Island, Sergei Viktor cruised in his assigned position, making a five-mile circle over the target below in his SU-33 Flanker, then doing a lazy eight, and coming back to circle his position the other way.