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How to pronounce airframe in English?

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Type of frame, framework

Examples of airframe

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Graduates earn a high school diploma and airframe or power-plant certification.
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The airframe cracked heavily and in a similar way as during TsAGI load testing.
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Other airframe makers are also eager to grab a piece of the replacement market.
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As Yahyavi led a reporter forward through the plane, the giant airframe shook.
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This frame also tied the four main fuselage longerons to the rest of the airframe.
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Airframe construction would be divided up between MDD and BAE with no overlap.
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The casing of the motor is an integral structural element of the missile airframe.
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The airframe was also subdivided into sections to allow transport by road or rail.
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Most payloads are stored in an internal payload bay somewhere in the airframe.
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More examples
  • The framework and covering of an airplane or rocket (excluding the engines)
  • The term airframe refers to the mechanical structure of an aircraft, and as generally used does not include the propulsion system. ...
  • Airframe is a novel by American writer Michael Crichton, first published in hardcover in 1996 by Knopf and as a paperback in 1997 by Ballantine Books. ...
  • An aircraft's structure without power plants or aircraft systems.
  • The assembled structure of an aircraft, including system components forming an integral part of structure and influencing strength, integrity or shape.
  • The fuselage, booms, nacelles, cowlings, fairings, airfoil surfaces (including rotors but excluding propellers and rotating airfoils of engines), and landing gear of an aircraft and their accessories and controls.
  • When the FAA inspector knows that you have only a student license and sends his kids to bum a ride with you in the plane.