Sentence examples for undercarriage from inspiring English sources

"undercarriage" is an acceptable word in written English and can be used to refer to the underside of a vehicle, aircraft, or other large object.
For example, "The mechanic inspected the undercarriage of the car to check for any signs of damage."

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undercarriage

noun

The supporting structural framework of a vehicle.

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A "female" helicopter/she-wolf feeds human figures blood from teats dangling from its undercarriage; a "male" bomb distributes death from its two heads and its grotesque armoury of proliferating penises; genderless victims are represented in the form of bloodied rib-bones with screaming faces.

Several times, we felt components detach themselves from the undercarriage, and we'd watch as they clattered off down the road.

When informed that the airline no longer offered newspapers to passengers, in order to cut costs, he found it all too easy to imagine a maintenance worker inspecting the plane's undercarriage and asking: "Do we really need all these rivets?"That firms which strive hard to sustain profits may act incautiously is a concern in many industries.

"As it swung around to line up for take-off, they leapt the airport fence, sprinted under the howling turbines and clambered into the undercarriage.

All it requires are some minor changes to the front undercarriage.

A poll for Intelligent Life, our sister quarterly, puts Heathrow wheels and undercarriage below all other airports for sheer misery.Just what makes travelling through Heathrow so stressful was set out in a report published on November 21st by the Department for Transport.

You drive on whichever bit of the road seems least likely to tear off the undercarriage of your vehicle.

Meanwhile, the undercarriage was reinforced so that the DC-3 could operate close to the battlefield.

And when it comes to designing an unmanned aircraft for a particular mission, SEAD is regarded as second in difficulty only to air-to-air dogfighting, and so provides a good test for UCAV technology.The X-45A is eight metres (27ft) long, has a wingspan of ten metres, and stands two metres tall on its undercarriage.

China appears to be designing a spacecraft-launcher that attaches to the undercarriage of a large warplane.

SJH Projects, a small British company, has developed a so-called "stone sponge" material that, fixed to a vehicle's undercarriage, partially absorbs the blast.

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