fuselage
Origin of fuselage
Related Words for fuselage
box, frame, material, skeleton, groundwork, essence, tenor, total, staple, gist, pith, sum, majority, corpus, core, assembly, hull, crux, chassis, trunkExamples from the Web for fuselage
Contemporary Examples of fuselage
Like the wings, the tail surfaces—horizontal and vertical—easily break away from the fuselage and float.
“Explosive decompression” where the fuselage breaks apart suddenly and catastrophically.
However, integrity of the fuselage structure is not an absolute guarantee that an explosive decompression will not occur.
Boeing does have one airplane with a long record of stress failures in its fuselage, the 737.
He hit the fuselage of his F-100 when he ejected, breaking his arm, damaging his eye and injuring his back.
Historical Examples of fuselage
Greatly to his surprise, Jack was not to be seen anywhere in the fuselage.
Boy Scouts Mysterious SignalG. Harvey Ralphson
"Not if you go under the fuselage to get Jack," objected Dave.
Boy Scouts Mysterious SignalG. Harvey Ralphson
He gestured furiously toward the fuselage of the old Supernova.
By ProxyGordon Randall Garrett
How the fuselage and tail plane stood the strain of it, God knows.
Night Bombing with the BedouinsRobert Henry Reece
The wires inside the fuselage should be cleaned and regreased about once a fortnight.
The Aeroplane SpeaksH. Barber