airframe

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Examples

• Yet it is always possible that the airframe will be beset by problems, that the code required to fly the plane will take years to get right, and that new complications can emerge in the process.

• Unity’s rocket is limited in size – and therefore in power – by being enclosed in a sleek airframe.

• “Instead of building an interesting airframe and then trying to figure out how to put the battery into that aircraft, we started with the battery first and put things on top of it,” Kelekona said.

• The impetus behind upgrading Elvis was finding a way to use the helicopter in riskier missions, including forest fire fighting, and expanding what the airframe could do.

• Both a rocket engine with a temperamental record and an airframe of revolutionary design and construction had to be proved safe.

• The physical airframe of a drone is actually very simple and can built without much trouble.

• The tests took place in a 1960s vintage Boeing 727 airframe.

• A metal airframe is designed to work as its own lightning conductor.