Sentence examples for hydraulics from inspiring English sources

Assembling giant jets may be more glamorous than making hydraulics and bits of electronic kit, but the partsmakers' margins are already fatter, in many cases, than those of the planemakers.

Insiders now suggest that Boeing will bring back some hydraulics in a forthcoming revamp of its 777 long-haul plane.Before this latest setback Boeing was already running behind the European firm.

Fuel-sipping planes are more profitable, so banks will finance them at lower interest rates.Time to lose weightIn the push to improve efficiency, wing flaps are now operated with lightweight electrical systems instead of hydraulics.

The hydraulics on those air cannons must be just so, as must the springs on the catapults.

Ian Halliday, the boss of 3T RPD, a British engineering firm, says that by making a gearbox's hydraulics using additive manufacturing, its weight can be reduced by 30%.

Before a single piece of metal was cut, everyone involved, from hydraulics specialists to electrical engineers, could walk around the plane in virtual reality and iron out conflicts over what went where.

They have no moving parts, fuel lines, valves, sealants or the messy hydraulics of conventional rockets.

The public and the press tend to focus on bridges and buildings, whereas some of the most elegant engineering work can be found in aircraft, ships, hydraulics and semiconductors.

What has been in doubt is whether such a device could ever become practical.At the heart of the lab-on-a-chip concept are microsystems for handling liquids a sort of miniaturisation of the mechanical pumps and valves that are used in hydraulics.

This uses hydraulics and electronics to optimise valve settings.

But nearly 30% of the finished vehicle, including hydraulics, pipes and trim, comes from local firms.