fuselage

[ US /ˈfjusəˌɫɑdʒ, ˈfjusəɫɪdʒ/ ]
[ UK /fjˈuːzəlˌɑːʒ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the central body of an airplane that is designed to accommodate the crew and passengers (or cargo)
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How To Use fuselage In A Sentence

  • To reduce the wing trim drag, the fuselage was fitted with lateral surfaces called chines, which actually converted the forward fuselage into a fixed canard which developed lift.
  • This consisted of the standard scheme with the addition of yellow and orange stripes to the rear of the fuselage and tailplane.
  • There were three gunners, both front and rear of the plane and one in a bubble canopy half way down the fuselage.
  • In this design the fuselage is the wing and vice versa. Times, Sunday Times
  • Plus the rest of the fuselage is built in Witchita and Charleston SC. Sound Politics: Boeing Ascendant, Airbus Reeling
  • A suite of infrared, wide-field telescopes installed along the length of the aircraft's fuselage detects the missile plume at ranges up to several hundred km.
  • Along the fuselage belly, the skin exhibited extreme bulging typical of corrosion damage.
  • As has been stated above one of the main fuel tanks was removed from the fuselage in order to adapt the aircraft from its original single-seater design.
  • With its wildly outsized fender flares, saucer-eyed round headlamps, squat fuselage, tapering roofline and curiously latent, not-quite-formed rear contours, the Juke looks like a Nissan Murano at the larval stage. Nissan's Jazzy Juke, Imperfect on Purpose
  • Roberts wonders if the remains beneath the fuselage are her brother's. Remains Returned List WWII
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