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fuselage

[fyoo-suh-lahzh, -lij, -zuh-, fyoo-suh-lahzh, -zuh-]

noun Aeronautics.

the complete central structure to which the wing, tail surfaces, and engines are attached on an airplane.

Origin:
1905–10; < French, equivalent to fusel(é) spindle-shaped (derivative of fuseau spindle; see fusee) + -age -age

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Paratroopers cannot jump out of it without risk of banging up against the fuselage.

The strength of the fuselage means that the cabin will be kept at a higher pressure than on conventional airliners.

Most wings extend from the fuselage at a fixed angle, and they are sufficiently rigid.

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Paratroopers cannot jump out of it without risk of banging up against the fuselage.

The strength of the fuselage means that the cabin will be kept at a higher pressure than on conventional airliners.

Most wings extend from the fuselage at a fixed angle, and they are sufficiently rigid.

The second run-in involved putting less people on the wing and more up astride the fuselage near the center of gravity.

The tail engine is disposed in front of the rear tail units on the upper part of the tail of the fuselage.

The latest contract includes developing part of the fuselage and other portions of the jet, the company said.

The truck carrying their baggage then crashed into the plane, ripping a small hole in the fuselage.

The current wing shaking idea would present vast fuselage attachment problems.

Concorde still cuts an impressive figure, with its huge delta wing, four aggressive engine air intakes and needle-thin fuselage.

Most helicopters have rotating airfoil shaped blades on top of the fuselage.

Into the sleepy rhythms of a holiday morning, human bodies came hurtling from a jet fuselage onto a quiet residential street.

When the electrical harnesses came to be fitted in the forward and aft fuselage sections, many didn't connect with each other.

Boeing had to stop work last year after wrinkles appeared in sections of the fuselage.

Two injured women were frozen to the top of a piece of fuselage.

Boeing is now giving them a big leg-up by involving them in making crucial parts, such as wings and fuselage.

One advantage to the pliable fuselage is that tinkerers have begun altering the out-of-the-box state.

Boeing has said that the stresses occurred at several spots where support rods in the wings met the fuselage.

And besides the wings, the fuselage itself provides aerodynamic lift.

And area between the fuselage and the tail is now open, allowing for a larger propeller.

The fuselage plowed through the home and into the backyard as the left wing broke off and spun into a yard next door.

Within its fuselage it would carry no weapons and only enough fuel to return to base.

The airplane is based on a design where the fuselage provides a significant part of the lift.

Aldana's half of the duplex house was leveled, with large metal hunks of the plane's fuselage and landing gear dotting the.

The fact of building the fuselage of the plane from carbon fibre is risky.

Both planes feature a bulbous nose and odd-looking bumps in the fuselage.

Afterward, parts of the fuselage were badly charred, with a hole in the roof of the forward section.

Interaction between the rotor and fuselage made the vehicle unflyable.

The engine of the charter plane plummeted into a front yard while the fuselage crashed into the garage.

But the damage gave the team the opportunity to redesign the fuselage.

The long, narrow planes have engines mounted to the rear of the fuselage and the tail.

It will pull a boat forward the same way an airplane wing will pull a fuselage right off a runway.

Hammerschmidt said that a fire began in the aft section of the plane's fuselage and spread slowly forward.

Based on aircraft fuselage design, it used a rear swing-arm suspension.

All that remained of the main fuselage was a gray circle of ashes.

The mangled fuselage and engine are lying several hundred feet away from each other.

There were also people in the fuselage asking for help, he said.

The fuselage and wings are a composite material, unlike the more traditional aluminum structure found in many small airplanes.

The helicopter can also hover with the fuselage at an angle by using some thrust from the propeller.

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World English Dictionary

fuselage (ˈfjuːzɪˌlɑːʒ)

—n
	the main body of an aircraft, excluding the wings, tailplane, and fin

[C20: from French, from fuseler to shape like a spindle, from Old French fusel spindle; see fusee]

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Word Origin & History

fuselage

1909, from Fr. fuselage, from fuselé "spindle-shaped," from O.Fr. *fus "spindle," from L. fusus "spindle." So called from its shape.

Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia

fuselage

central portion of the body of an airplane, designed to accommodate the crew, passengers, and cargo. It varies greatly in design and size according to the function of the aircraft. In a jet fighter the fuselage consists of a cockpit large enough only for the controls and pilot, but in a jet airliner it includes a much larger cockpit as well as a cabin that has separate decks for passengers and cargo. The predominant types of fuselage structures are the monocoque (i.e., kind of construction in which the outer skin bears a major part or all of the stresses) and semimonocoque. These structures provide better strength-to-weight ratios for the fuselage covering than the truss-type construction used in earlier planes

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