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Thanks to Northrop, Lockheed will now make 40% of the airframe of the 747 (by weight).

It is also expected to build around 5% of the airframe of the new A350.

That translates into a double saving in fuel that has to be hauled along for the ride as well as in the airframe of the launch vehicle itself.

The modified airframe of the June Bug, fitted with another Curtiss engine, mounted on floats, and renamed the Loon, became the first hydroplane tested in the United States.

It is built with the airframe of the workhorse Hercules cargo plane, but jutting from its port side are 25-millimeter Gatling guns and 40-millimeter and 105-millimeter cannons that computers can hold on a target while the plane banks and flies in a circle.

After the merger Rockwell continued to be a major government contractor, making the Saturn V rocket engines that lifted the Apollo astronauts to the moon; the Space Shuttle orbiters and their main engines; and the airframe of the B-1B bomber.

In order to study the multiple sites damage (MSD) under fatigue loading which was occurring in the airframe of aging aircraft, the digital image correlation (DIC) technique was used to evaluate MSD in the hollow pre-notched specimen with 2024-T4 alloynum alloy subjected to cyclic loading conditions.

However, the salt normally used to clear roads can damage the airframe of aircraft and interferes with the sensitive navigation equipment.

The system is being developed by ­Boeing, which uses the airframe of a modified 747 jumbo, and the MDA.

Its several innovative characteristics included the use of titanium in the airframe because of the metal's lightness, strength, and heat resistance (see titanium processing: Aerospace applications).

Even as its Predators and Reapers have become the signature airframe of America's protracted ground wars and shadow battlefields against terrorism, the Raptor appeals to the air force's culture of audacious manned – which may explain why the service ensured it would be on-hand in the Middle East for the Syria conflict.