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Recent Examples of airframe
This multifaceted approach demonstrates how innovative airframe technology can accelerate the industry’s shift toward cleaner travel.
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 27 Apr. 2025
China currently controls close to 90 percent of the global commercial drone market, and manufactures most of the key hardware used to build them – airframes, batteries, radios, cameras and screens, according to market research firm Drone Industry Insights UG.
—David Jeans, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
Composites enhance aerodynamics and fatigue resistance, a reason why they’re used in modern airframes like Boeing’s 787 (50 percent of the main structure) and Airbus’s A350 (53 percent).
—IEEE Spectrum, 8 Feb. 2025
Effectively, Beyond has designed a new 10-seat business jet airframe around a battery-free hydrogen-electric propulsion system.
—New Atlas, 24 Mar. 2025
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 27 Apr. 2025
China currently controls close to 90 percent of the global commercial drone market, and manufactures most of the key hardware used to build them – airframes, batteries, radios, cameras and screens, according to market research firm Drone Industry Insights UG.
—David Jeans, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
Composites enhance aerodynamics and fatigue resistance, a reason why they’re used in modern airframes like Boeing’s 787 (50 percent of the main structure) and Airbus’s A350 (53 percent).
—IEEE Spectrum, 8 Feb. 2025
Effectively, Beyond has designed a new 10-seat business jet airframe around a battery-free hydrogen-electric propulsion system.
—New Atlas, 24 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for airframe
Noun
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The aircraft is produced by Chengdu Aircraft Corporation and equipped with modern radar and air-to-air missile systems.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 May 2025
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Air traffic controllers could be heard telling a FedEx plane that their screens went dark and then asking the aircraft to tell their company to put pressure on to get the problem fixed.—
Sam Sweeney,
ABC News,
9 May 2025
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But according to flight attendants, many travelers are regularly breaking the rules of good airplane behavior, often without even realizing it.—
Alesandra Dubin,
Southern Living,
14 May 2025
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The work will start in June and the majority of airplanes will be finished by July, with the remainder done in 2026.—
Vinod Sreeharsha,
Miami Herald,
14 May 2025
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By 2027, United expects to have 30 such planes available.—
Zach Wichter,
USA Today,
14 May 2025
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Topline Republicans and Democrats in Congress raised both and ethical concerns about the White House’s plan to use a gifted luxury plane from Qatar as an Air Force One replacement, after President Donald Trump defended the gift of a free plane offered by a foreign nation.—
Siladitya Ray,
Forbes.com,
13 May 2025
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The ship's 147-foot masts, which were shining bright with decorative lights, couldn't clear the arched bridge and were sheared off upon impact.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
20 May 2025
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The first of 49 of the tanks have been loaded onto cargo ships to be sent to Ukraine in a delivery which was confirmed by Australia's prime minister Anthony Albenese.—
Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 May 2025
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The Hindenburg crash effectively brought about the end of the commercial airship industry.—
John Otis,
New York Times,
3 May 2025
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The museum’s showstopper is the Gulliver Airship, a fantastic and imaginative 130-foot-long wood and steel zeppelin inspired by airships of the early twentieth century.—
Elizabeth Brownfield,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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The stakes for air safety were made clear in January when an American Airlines regional jet collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, killing all 67 people aboard.—
Jackie Snow,
Quartz,
19 May 2025
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They'll be followed later by newer aircraft, including 50 Apache, Black Hawk and Chinook helicopters.—
Cybele Mayes-Osterman,
USA Today,
16 May 2025
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“Airframe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airframe. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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