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(aeronautical) The main body of an aerospace vehicle; the long central structure of an aircraft to which the wings (or rotors), tail, and engines are attached, and which accommodates crew and cargo.
Examples of fuselage in a Sentence
This can include wings, the tail and the fuselage.
The whole tail assembly is permanently attached to the fuselage.
The aircraft has no cannons mounted in the forward fuselage.
Structure The fuselage sides are sheet balsa, with balsa stringers attached to the outside aft of the cockpit.
The tailplane and fin are made from 1/4 inch sheet balsa, the complete tail assembly being permanently attached to the fuselage.
The forward fuselage is completed by a curved balsa sheet top decking, with block balsa under the nose.
The four exhaust nozzles are attached to the engine via four circular cutouts in the fuselage side.
Final Details The An-71 has a large fairing on the upper rear fuselage just forward of the fin.
A central stabilizing fin is also fitted on top of the fuselage.
A " Skylark " badge was carried on the tail; a green ' lightning flash ' was added to the fuselage sides.
This was supposed to be a rebuild of the earlier aircraft but had a new fuselage, wings, tail and engine.
Known as the Kittyhawk IV in RAF service the aircraft also featured a lengthened fuselage and redesigned canopy.
The livery features a blue fuselage with red highlights, the opposite to the existing fleet of red aircraft with blue highlights.
In the ferry mission extended wing tips were added to the aircraft, the ' combat tips ' being stored in the rear fuselage.
The trial wings were mounted vertically on the upper rear fuselage.
The nose wheel is raised backward into front fuselage.
All of the crew took emergency landing positions which were in the main fuselage of the aircraft to prepare for a crash landing.
The operating carrier will be identified by its logo located on the forward part of the aircraft fuselage below the Star Alliance name.
The Jaguar is equipped with two 30mm Aden cannons installed in gun bays in the lower center fuselage.
The data were collected in Poland and the results allowed to identify the critical loading paths from engine nacelle to the wing fuselage section.
Recognition Swept, low-wing monoplane with two engines mounted on rear fuselage (1 ).
This is a tailless, low-wing monoplane with swept-back wings of large root chord and having a long, narrow fuselage.
On a few aircraft a red outline was applied to the fuselage roundel.
The rear of the fuselage pod was slightly re-shaped to accommodate the larger engine tailpipe.
Nose gear has side by side wheels which retract rearwards into fuselage.
The balsa stringers used on the rear fuselage look thick and clumsy and will be prone to damage while the model is being transported.
Fuel is stored in integral tanks in the wings, fuselage and tail fin, as well as in underwing tanks.
All armament and the radar was removed and a winch fitted in the rear fuselage.
The aft fuselage, at the back, houses the main engines that provide the other 29 per cent of thrust required for launch.