Sentence examples for airframe shape from inspiring English sources

But the hobby really took off in the mid-70's, when a free-thinking aeronautical engineer named Burt Rutan pioneered the use of composites -- essentially lightweight fiberglass -- to create virtually any airframe shape easily and rapidly.

Tests by NASA with a modified fighter jet have shown that novel airframe shapes can reduce the boom.

Measures to reduce radar cross-section include airframe shaping such as planform alignment of edges, fixed-geometry serpentine inlets that prevent line-of-sight of the engine faces from any exterior view, use of radar-absorbent material (RAM), and attention to detail such as hinges and pilot helmets that could provide a radar return.

The resulting increased level of design and fabrication freedom provides potential for a reduction in both volume and weight as well as the capability of fabricating systems in arbitrary and complex shapes as required to conform to unique application requirements (e.g., human anatomy, airframe structures, and other volumetrically-constrained mechanical systems).

Consequently, for injury minimization the small unmanned aircraft basic operational and physical design criteria are described regarding impact velocity and attitude upon impact, along with the shape of the airframe part that contacts the body.

In 1999, two years after being delivered, only one airframe was in airworthy condition.

A centralised IFPC system, designed using the method of H∞ loop-shaping, is partitioned into separate airframe and engine sub-controllers which are connected by a specified coupling structure.

One single airframe was converted to this configuration.

Framework construction is the base of these airframes where cross sectional shapes are connected into a rigid assembly.

Adjoint-based optimal designs of the inlet shape are then carried out to minimize the airframe drag force and flow distortion at fan faces.

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