fuselage
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The Lion Air flight crashed last November when a faulty sensor on the plane's fuselage triggered the MCAS, sending the plane into an irreversible descent into the Java Sea, killing 189 people. — Sam Blum, Popular Mechanics, "Boeing Takes Responsibility For Both 737 Max 8 Crashes and Apologizes," 4 Apr. 2019 The Beluga XL spent eight days being poked and prodded, first with an empty fuselage, then fully loaded with cargo. — Alex Davies, WIRED, "Airbus Rattles Its Whale of a Jet in the Name of Safety," 8 June 2018 Technological breakthroughs have all been devoted to economizing on fuel by building more efficient engines and more aerodynamic fuselages and wings. — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, "Airbus Shows Danger of Wanting It Bigger and Faster," 14 Feb. 2019 With flat sides on the fuselage, Scaled can make panels and clone the part for use almost anywhere on the airplane. — Michael Belfiore, Popular Mechanics, "Say Hello to Stratolaunch, the World's Largest Plane," 17 Apr. 2012 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. 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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