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Fuselage   Listen
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fuselage  n.  (Aeronautics) The central, approximately cylindrical portion of an airplane which carries the passengers, crew, and cargo. It usually forms the main structural portion of an airplane, and to it are typically attached the wings, tail, and sometimes the engines. In single-propeller airplanes, the propeller is typically fixed at the front of the fuselage, although variants have been produced with the propeller at the rear. Some airplanes have no fuselage, properly so called.
Synonyms: body.






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"Fuselage" Quotes from Famous Books



... when the nearest plane opened fire. The spitting flame told him this, for it darted out like the fiery tongue of a serpent. He also realized that the bullets were cutting through space all around them; and a splinter striking his arm announced the fuselage of the plane had already been struck, showing the ...
— Air Service Boys Over the Atlantic • Charles Amory Beach

... reported Zeppelins. I had to keep turning toward the boche every second, as he was circling around towards me and I was on the inside of the circle, so his gunner had all the advantage over me. I thought I had him on fire for one instant as I saw—or supposed I did—flames on his fuselage. Everything passed in a few seconds and we swung past each other in opposite directions at scarcely twenty-five meters from each other—the boche beating off towards the north and I immediately dived down in the opposite direction wondering every second whether the broken wing support ...
— Flying for France • James R. McConnell



Words linked to "Fuselage" :   airplane, tail, porthole, empennage, aeroplane, tail assembly, body, plane



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