The fuselage (/ˈfjuːzəlɑːʒ/; from the French fuselé "spindle-shaped") is an aircraft's main body section. It holds crew, passengers, or cargo. In single-engine...

lofting process, with longitudinal axis labeled as "stations" (usually fuselage stations, frame stations, FS), transverse axis as "buttocks lines" (or...

smooth. Most fixed-wing aircraft have a single fuselage. Others may have multiple fuselages, or the fuselage may be fitted with booms on either side of the...

the burned fuselage of Flight 4819 A clear view of the tail and right wing which separated on impact A closer view of the upside-down fuselage The Transportation...

more slender floats mounted under the fuselage to provide buoyancy. By contrast, a flying boat uses its fuselage for buoyancy. Either type of seaplane...

damage after an explosive decompression in flight, caused by part of the fuselage breaking due to poor maintenance and metal fatigue. The plane was able...

A twin-fuselage aircraft has two main fuselages. It is distinct from the twin-boom configuration which has a single main fuselage with two subsidiary boom...

also known as blended body, hybrid wing body (HWB) or a lifting aerofoil fuselage, is a fixed-wing aircraft having no clear dividing line between the wings...

Voices from the Fuselage are an English progressive metal band from Northampton, currently signed to White Star Records. The band formed in 2010, when...

pressurized fuselage provides this feature, but in the event of a nose or tail impact, large bending moments build all the way through the fuselage, causing...

shearing off both wings and the tail cone. The remaining portion of the fuselage slid down a glacier at an estimated 350 km/h (220 mph), descending 725...

facility for the year-long process of assembling the upper fuselage and the lowered nose fuselage. The first section arrived in Toulouse in November 2016...

had a long term need to transport sizeable components, such as wings and fuselage sections, to their final assembly lines. This had been met by a small fleet...

below the wing on large aircraft like commercial airliners or to the rear fuselage on smaller aircraft such as business jets. The EBU components connect the...

leading to overloading of fuselage frames adjacent to fuselage cut outs. (Cohen Inquiry accident report Fig 7). The fuselage frames did not have sufficient...

clandestine use of helicopters. Numerous helicopters have incorporated profiled fuselages to reduce their radar cross-section (RCS), constructing elements of the...

hollow, barrel-shaped fuselage with the engine and propeller completely enclosed by the fuselage—in essence, the whole fuselage was a single ducted fan...

1979, the 707 is a swept wing quadjet with podded engines. Its larger fuselage cross-section allowed six-abreast economy seating, retained in the later...

landing gears, and a loading ramp at the back of the fuselage. The patent also listed open-ended fuselage compartment dimensions of at least 16 ft (4.9 m)...

fuselage and hence a reduction in both fuselage wetted area and weight. In contrast to tractor layout, a pusher propeller at the end of the fuselage is...

wing is mounted vertically on the fuselage. A low wing is one which is located on or near the bottom of the fuselage. Placing the wing low allows good...

composite fuselage for the first prototype V-280 Valor, which was delivered in September 2015. In total, the design and manufacturing of the fuselage was completed...

distinct from twin-fuselage designs in that it retains a central fuselage. The twin-boom configuration is distinct from the twin fuselage type in having a...

of the MU-2F were sold.[citation needed] Beginning with the MU-2G, the fuselage was stretched. The MU-2M, of which only 28 were built, is regarded as the...

As the forward fuselage continued to disintegrate, the flying debris tore off both of the horizontal stabilizers, while the rear fuselage, the remaining...

an airliner with a fuselage wide enough to accommodate two passenger aisles with seven or more seats abreast. The typical fuselage diameter is 5 to 6 m...

aircraft fuselages and automobile chassis. Longerons are used in conjunction with stringers to form structural frameworks. In an aircraft fuselage, stringers...

engine jet airliners; it carries 185 to 236 passengers. It has a stretched fuselage which was the first derivative of the baseline A320 and entered service...

steady flight. A fuselage, a long, thin body, usually with tapered or rounded ends to make its shape aerodynamically smooth. The fuselage joins the other...

Airbus aircraft largely made of carbon-fibre-reinforced polymers. The fuselage is designed around a 3-3-3 nine-across economy cross-section, an increase...