Sentence examples similar to airframe modification from inspiring English sources

In addition to providing heavy maintenance inspections, airframe upgrades and modifications, it repairs over 6,000 different components.

With slight modifications to the airframe, it plans to produce this in China, to be marketed under the name E-Spyder.

The Ju 87 R-1 had a B-1 airframe with the exception of a modification in the fuselage which enabled an additional oil tank.

With certain modifications to the Tristar airframe, they could be used to power the Lockheed plane.

Early marks of Seafire had relatively few modifications to the standard Spitfire airframe; however cumulative front line experience meant that most of the later versions of the Seafire had strengthened airframes, folding wings, arrestor hooks and other modifications, culminating in the purpose-built Seafire F/FR Mk 47.

Engine technology developments have always driven airframe advances and that will not change in the future.

Automobile assembly plants did not readily accommodate airframes, nor could an automobile engine factory be converted without substantial modification.

Although the test flying programme was not completed and the TSR-2 was undergoing typical design and systems modifications reflective of its sophisticated configuration, "[T]here was no doubt that the airframe would be capable of accomplishing the tasks set for it and that it represented a major advance on any other type".

For instance, Russia has long put the huge airframe Tupolev Tu-95 bomber to work in coastal reconnaissance, and since 1969 the U.S. Navy has employed its EP-3 Aries, a modification of the Lockheed P-3 Orion antisubmarine patrol plane, in the same capacity.

7 12 AIRFRAME, by Michael Crichton.

Airframe costs can drop more than 50% per pound during the three to five years of a high-volume production run if the manufacturer can control the rate of modification and sustain volume production.