Sentence examples for the airframes from inspiring English sources
noun
The main body and structure of an aircraft (without the powerplant).
- This airframe has 2600 flight hours on it
The airframes and engines of Navy jamming aircraft are failing.
And an aircraft factory in Sichuan province has agreed to build the airframes and engines.
The airframes for the planes are made by a Florida company, Velocity Aircraft.
For the airframes of commercial airliners, this is required after about five years (22,000 flight hours) of operation.
To quell those concerns, Lockheed lined up a roster of suppliers around the country and committed itself to making the airframes in Texas.
And two German engineers, Mr Puls and Hanno Fischer (whose version is called Airfish 8), have taken it up and made it work by using modern, composite materials for the airframes, and propellers rather than jets for propulsion.
You could feel the airframe straining to gain altitude.
All details, from the airframe to the electric subsystem, are stored in the computer.
Thanks to Northrop, Lockheed will now make 40% of the airframe of the 747 (by weight).
They characteristically have the airframe and propulsion system closely integrated so that the propulsion system exhaust flow influences the aerodynamics of the airframe.
The part transfers thrust from the main engines to the airframe.
