fairings

plural of fairing, British

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Recent Examples of fairings Conventional launch vehicles secure their payloads inside protective fairings that fall away from the rocket completely once damaging aerodynamic forces disappear in the vacuum of space. Josh Dinner, Space.com, 15 July 2026 As part of the contract, Beyond Gravity will produce 20 long and seven short fairings. Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 10 July 2026 On Falcon 9 launches, the company recovers the booster and payload fairings but tosses the upper stage, which puts a floor under how cheap each launch can get. Chris Stokel-Walker, Scientific American, 12 June 2026 The vertical launch horizontal landing spaceplane will be mated to a launch vehicle and will not be encapsulated in the launch vehicle fairings. Aditya Jadhav, Interesting Engineering, 18 May 2026 The material was also used in the fenders, fairings and winglets on the Suzuki GSX-R1000R for the the Suzuka 8 Hours endurance race over the last couple of years. Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 6 Feb. 2026 Boeing’s uncrewed spacecraft fits in normal rocket fairings, or nosecones, and has flown five times on United Launch Alliance Atlas V rockets, once on SpaceX Falcon 9 and once on Falcon Heavy. Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025 The prototype that Sarcos demonstrated had all of the functionality of the version that will ship in January, but latter models will include plastic fairings over the suit as well as quick-change end-effectors. IEEE Spectrum, 10 Dec. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fairings
Noun
  • Meek, without using names, criticized both Jones and Gilbert for donations received from CDR and The Geo Group, companies that have made money off immigration enforcement in Florida.
    Raisa Habersham July 23, Miami Herald, 23 July 2026
  • Thirty beluga whales remained at the facility -- their care funded by donations.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 22 July 2026
Noun
  • Though holiday gifting may not yet be on your radar, keep in mind that the sale is a great opportunity to stock up on gifts for various occasions, stress-free.
    ABC News, ABC News, 18 July 2026
  • Strengthen limitations on gifts and gratuities from vendors doing business with or seeking to do business with the district to board members and their families.
    Maven Navarro, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 July 2026
Noun
  • Sweden’s Petra Fagerström will make her LFW runway debut, while Francesca Lake and Gui Rosa will put on their first LFW presentations.
    Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 20 July 2026
  • In 2009, the Directors’ Guild and the Writers’ Guild objected when the TV Academy revealed a plan to pre-tape award presentations in eight categories before the show.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 17 July 2026
Noun
  • The new $24 million educational hub, set to open in Spring of 2028, will become an international mecca for advancing the practical and economic solutions that regenerative organic agriculture presents.
    Andrew Watman, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
  • Inside the largest house the boys had ever been in was an enormous Christmas tree with a pile of presents underneath it, all for them.
    Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 10 July 2026

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“Fairings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fairings. Accessed 24 Jul. 2026.

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