fuselage
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The Dreamliner embraced a host of new technologies, notably its weight-saving carbon-fiber fuselage. — Robert Wall, WSJ, "The Last 747: Airlines Dump the Jumbo Jet, Transforming International Travel," 29 Dec. 2018 Stratolaunch, created by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, has been developing a giant dual-fuselage plane to launch rockets into orbit. — Loren Grush, The Verge, "Microsoft co-founder’s space venture plans to create three new rockets, including a spaceplane," 20 Aug. 2018 The plane gets way up there with a little help from a dual fuselage mothership (in simpler terms, two planes with their wings connected in the middle), which carries it up to 40,000 feet. — Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, "Virgin Galactic Just Made Its Second Successful Test Flight to Space," 27 July 2018 Two prototypes of the T-X were produced by Boeing and Saab, with Saab building components for the aft fuselage and other systems. — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, "Boeing/Saab joint T-X design wins Air Force’s jet trainer competition," 28 Sep. 2018 Since 1995, Airbus has used the comically bulbous aircraft to transport oversize, unwieldy cargo like fuselages and wings between its European production and assembly plants. — Alex Davies, WIRED, "Airbus Rattles Its Whale of a Jet in the Name of Safety," 8 June 2018 The Pregnant Guppy was made from not one but two Stratocruisers, with a section of fuselage sawed off one and added to another to stretch it by sixteen feet. — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, "Why the Super Guppy Is Such a Badass Plane," 17 Dec. 2018 The separate target that Russia claimed to have identified on radar was actually part of MH17’s fuselage breaking away after the missile detonated. — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, "Russian unit, GRU officer linked to 2014 shoot-down of airliner over Ukraine," 25 May 2018 Shrapnel damaged the fuselage and broke the window. — Darlene Superville, BostonGlobe.com, "Trump hails bravery of crew, passengers aboard Southwest plane," 1 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'fuselage.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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