Definition of fuselage
: the central body portion of an aircraft designed to accommodate the crew and the passengers or cargo — see airplane illustration
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Power-Generating Windmills In the very rare occurrence that an aircraft loses all power mid-flight, many modern planes are furnished with a small propeller that deploys from either a wing or the fuselage.
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Cirrus, based in Duluth, Minn., says the Vision is unique with its single-engine, carbon-fiber fuselage and Cirrus’ whole-plane parachute, which allows a pilot to float the entire aircraft to earth in event of an insurmountable midair emergency.
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There on the fuselage, about two-thirds of the way from the plane’s nose to its tail, is a rectangular patch that shines a peculiar silver on the aircraft’s dusky skin.
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In the French capital this year, Leahy is likely to secure further orders for the A350 wide-body aircraft, featuring a composite fuselage that reduces fuel burn, and the A330neo, a decades-old model that’s been given a life-extending new engine.
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They were joined by two medics and an interpreter, who added welcome body heat to the cramped fuselage.
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Now the fuselages built by robots are noticeably free of temporary fasteners.
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Its enormous, catamaran-like aircraft will carry ‘air launch vehicles’ between its two fuselages and hoist them into the upper atmosphere.
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Suspended between the twin-fuselages of a special jet, SpaceShipOne was carried to high altitude and released.
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Origin and Etymology of fuselage
French, from fuselé spindle-shaped, from Middle French, from fusel, diminutive of fus
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: the main part of an airplane : the part of an airplane that holds the crew, passengers, and cargo
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: the part of an airplane that holds the crew, passengers, and cargo
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