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1996 Michael Crichton novel
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airframe
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Word definitions for airframe in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The airframe of an aircraft is its mechanical structure . It is typically considered to include fuselage , wings and undercarriage and exclude the propulsion system . Airframe design is a field of aerospace engineering that combines aerodynamics , materials ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
airframe \airframe\ n. 1. the framework and covering of an airplane or rocket (excluding the engines).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the framework and covering of an airplane or rocket (excluding the engines)
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The main body and structure of an aircraft (without the powerplant).
Usage examples of airframe.
In recent years, airframe manufacturers had been obliged to send portions of the fabrication overseas, to the countries ordering planes.
Structural Integrity Methods for Airframe Durability and Damage Tolerance.
Casey said that was impossible, that no airframe manufacturer had ever allowed an outside crew on a flight test.
That guy subjected the airframe to forces it was never built to withstand.
The huge weight of the engines and the airframe was slowly dragging the Firefox deeper and further out into the lake.
Firefox shuddered, and the entire airframe lurched away from him towards deeper water.
As with the photographs, he could see no evidence that an airframe had broken up over the lake.
He had swum down the length of the airframe, lifting slowly over the huge wing, gripping the edges of the massive tailpipes as he rounded the tail section, his lamp dancing wildly off the contours of the plane.
The intact airframe was more dangerous, a hundres times more dangerous, than shards and pieces of wreckage on the floor of the lake.
The airframe is intact and less than forty miles from the Russian border, and the pilot is by now probably in Murmansk, if not on his way to Moscow!
Sooner or later he will tell them where to find the airframe of the Firefox.
The fact that your President, at the eager prompting of the Chiefs of Staff, the entire Pentagon, the NSA and your own Director, have ordered us to rescue the airframe if we humanly can?
The best we could hope for, if the Skyhook does not arrive, is to remove some of the more vital systems from the airframe, then destroy it.
That would leave us less than twenty-four hours to lift the airframe and get it over the border!
Skyhook does not arrive before the deadline expires - you will destroy the airframe completely.