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Recent Examples of airframe
The company supplies airframe and engine structures and landing gear, among other aerospace products.
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Nathaniel Percy,
Oc Register,
26 May 2026
Repurposed planes become sustainable buildings, reusing strong, light airframes built for thousands of takeoffs and landings, instead of creating hotels from scratch.
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Michael Goldstein,
Forbes.com,
7 May 2026
The helicopter’s most recent airframe maintenance was a 100-hour inspection completed the same day of the crash.
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Angie Dimichele,
Sun Sentinel,
3 Apr. 2026
Based on a commercial Boeing 737 airframe, the twin-engine Navy jets, named Poseidon, are used for anti-submarine warfare as well as intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.
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Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
2 Mar. 2026
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Nathaniel Percy,
Oc Register,
26 May 2026
Repurposed planes become sustainable buildings, reusing strong, light airframes built for thousands of takeoffs and landings, instead of creating hotels from scratch.
—
Michael Goldstein,
Forbes.com,
7 May 2026
The helicopter’s most recent airframe maintenance was a 100-hour inspection completed the same day of the crash.
—
Angie Dimichele,
Sun Sentinel,
3 Apr. 2026
Based on a commercial Boeing 737 airframe, the twin-engine Navy jets, named Poseidon, are used for anti-submarine warfare as well as intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.
—
Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
2 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for airframe
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From the Dallas Stadium, an unauthorized aircraft cannot come within three nautical miles or fly 3,000 feet ground-to-air.
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Additionally, 42 aircraft were lost or damaged, and 20 military installations were hit, leading to $29 billion in repair costs and an $80 billion supplement request.
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Ships, like airplanes, are designed with fluid dynamics in mind, and biofoul seriously messes that up.
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Scenes involving firearms alarmed distributors still grappling with the aftermath of the Columbine massacre, while the film’s October release via Newmarket was further complicated by a trailer prominently featuring an airplane crash just weeks after the September 11 attacks.
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One of his planes was in trouble.
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The day before, 12 people were killed when a plane on a skydiving outing in Missouri crashed.
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For months, shipping companies have been in wait and see mode, carefully calculating the risk of moving ships through the strait.
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Transits tripled to 93 last weekend compared with the prior comparable period, according to ship-tracking data provider MarineTraffic, but remain far below pre-war levels when more than 100 ships transited the strait each day.
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Grieving a beloved ally, and with their nemesis Sephiroth nearing godhood, the party takes to the skies aboard the airship Highwind in a race against time to stop Meteor, the ultimate destructive magic, and the total obliteration of the planet.
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Fearing that the Italians would seize credit, Amundsen teamed up with American entrepreneur Lincoln Ellsworth to purchase the airship.
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Fire crews are working to contain the fire, and a helicopter is assisting with water drops.
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The building is so big and the flames are in such hard-to-reach areas that firefighters have needed to get creative with their approach, using water-dropping helicopters and other heavy equipment.
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“Airframe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airframe. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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