fuselage
/ˈfjuːzəˌlɑːʒ/
fuselage noun: 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.
Noun
fuselage (plural fuselages)
- 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.
- Federal officials examining the horrifying midflight blowout of part of an Alaska Airlines aircraft’s fuselage are testing the detached piece for clues on what led up to the plane’s “explosive decompression” after the missing piece was discovered in an Oregon backyard.2024 January 8, Paradise Afshar, Elizabeth Wolfe, Gregory Wallace, Pete Muntean, “New details emerge on piece of Alaska Airlines plane that blew off midflight as investigators probe ‘explosive...
- Wichita, Kansas-based Spirit AeroSystems makes major parts of several Boeing models, including the fuselages for the 737 Max.2024 March 1, Chris Isidore, Gregory Wallace, “Boeing wants to buy back the company that builds the body of its troubled Max planes”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 13 Apr 2024
fuselage meaning in Tamil, Tagalog, Arabic and Malay
fuselage in Tamil
- விமானக் கட்டகம், விமானத்தின் உடற்பகுதி, விமானவுடல், வானுடல்
fuselage in Tagalog
- main body of aerospace vehicle
- puselahe
fuselage in Arabic
- main body of aerospace vehicle
- جِسْم طَائِرَة jism ṭāʔira, جِسْم jism
fuselage in Malay
- main body of aerospace vehicle
- fiuslaj
More languagesFewer languages
- fuselage in Indonesian
- badan
- fuselage in Vietnamese
- thân
Examples of fuselage in a sentence
- At high angles of attack, the shuttle’s rudder is blanked by the fuselage and wings, forcing it to use its RCS thrusters for yaw control.
- To summarize: in semimonocoque fuselages, the strong, heavy longerons hold the bulkheads and formers.
- However, when you measure them closely most glider fuselages aren't really all that symmetrical anyhow.
Forms of fuselage
| plural | fuselages |
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Origin of fuselage
Borrowed from French fuselage. Ultimately from Latin fūsus (“spindle, spinning wheel”). For the meaning development, compare rocket, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rukkô (“spinning wheel, distaff”) (whence also English rock (“distaff, the flax or wool on a distaff”)).
Words formed from fuselage
Questions about fuselage
- What does fuselage mean?
- Fuselage means 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.
- What is fuselage in Tamil?
- Fuselage in Tamil is விமானக் கட்டகம், விமானத்தின் உடற்பகுதி, விமானவுடல். See Fuselage meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is fuselage?
- Fuselage is a noun.
- How do you pronounce fuselage?
- Fuselage is pronounced /ˈfjuːzəˌlɑːʒ/.
- What is the plural of fuselage?
- The plural of fuselage is fuselages.
Words near fuselage in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: fuselage (page history and authors); fuselage (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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