Airframe
the framework and external covering of an airplane, rocket, etc.
contemporary examples
both a rocket engine with a temperamental record and an airframe of revolutionary design and construction had to be proved safe.
virgin galactic’s flight path to disaster: a clash of high risk and hyperbole clive irving october 31, 2014
the tests took place in a 1960s vintage boeing 727 airframe.
p-ssenger flights must stop carrying lithium-ion batteries as cargo clive irving may 4, 2014
noun
the body of an aircraft, excluding its engines
Read Also:
- Air freight
a system of transporting freight by aircraft: ship it by air freight. freight transported by aircraft. the charge for such transportation. contemporary examples he frequently gets m-ssages and eats “life-enhancing” fruits that he receives by air freight. 6 juicy bits from ‘sweet revenge: the intimate life of simon cowell’ april 30, 2012 noun freight transported […]
- Airfreight
. to send or ship by : to airfreight french bread to the u.s. to ship cargo by : during the truckers’ strike we had to airfreight. of, relating to, or involved in : the airfreight business.
- Air frost
noun the deposition of ice condensed from water vapour in the atmosphere on the surface when the air temperature is below 0°c
- Air gas
chemistry, . a gas composed of carbon monoxide, hydrogen, and nitrogen, obtained by p-ssing air and steam through incandescent c-ke: used as an industrial fuel, in certain gas engines, and in the manufacture of ammonia. noun another name for producer gas noun a mixture of carbon monoxide and nitrogen produced by p-ssing air over hot […]
- Air gauge
a gauge for measuring air pressure. historical examples two minutes previous the old engineer had asked him to go out on the locomotive to adjust some fault in the air gauge. ralph on the engine allen chapman