It also makes specialized metal parts used in the fuselage and wings of jet aircraft.
Instead of having a single, cylindrical fuselage they employ two partial cylinders joined together (see above).
The silver fuselage, our silver bird and our eagle were very important to them going forward.
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The 300 tons of fuselage and engine, and the fuel it takes to move them, are all free.
Frictional drag means the air closest to the surface of the fuselage moves more slowly than the rest.
None of this would have mattered so much if the airliner's fuselage had all been built in France.
The design, a more radical triangular wing-body shape, combines the plane's fuselage with the wings and has no tail.
The lightweight Dreamliner, with a composite-plastic fuselage, is about three years behind schedule.
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The fitted tension in the lower fuselage, the sucked-in, negative spaces ahead of the rear wheel arches, are spectacular.
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Its fuselage is made entirely from lighter composite plastics rather than traditional aluminium.
Luckey argues that aircraft are designed to withstand the minor decompression that might result from bullet holes in the fuselage.
There are two crew - the pilot sitting in a narrow cockpit offset towards the left side of the fuselage.
The simplest option is to scale down the existing standard of a fuselage with two fixed wings and a tail.
At one plant, which made part of the fuselage, he asked managers what was keeping their production line from moving.
Investigators painstakingly reconstructed a large part of the aircraft's fuselage wreckage which was recovered from a huge area following the crash.
The rear of the fuselage is also sculpted to sweep air into the engines using a process known as boundary-layer ingestion.
Boeing agreed to take over a factory in South Carolina that makes part of the fuselage for the troubled 787Dreamliner project.
But the fuselage, the wings, the engines and propellers are still there.
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Like the jet's fuselage, you pay for them once, up front, regardless.
The simulator is made from a genuine fuselage of a Piper Warrior aeroplane, identical to the training aircraft used by the charity.
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It was there that one of the wings and part of the fuselage of the plane had landed in a huge fireball.
The three engines are mounted at the rear, flush with the fuselage.
But Dr Drela says the D-series's wider fuselage would compensate for that.
The farther the air is from the fuselage, the faster it moves.
I'm not convinced by the flying-V character lines on the car's fuselage.
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It had a stout airframe with a fail-safe design, flat floor and squared oval fuselage, which gave it an exceptionally spacious cabin.
The plane's fuselage was lifted out of the river over the weekend.
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A340 in active service, one-third of which chiefly the upper fuselage and wings has been covered with a special, ribbed version of the film.
The fuselage and other parts of the airplane resemble the Piaggio Avanti that has become so successful as a jet-speed, affordable business aircraft.
The company numbers Boeing, Airbus and Lockheed Martin among its customers of propulsion-system components and aerostructures--such items as engine housings and fuselage parts.
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