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  2. Template:Aircraft specs - Wikipedia

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    Template:Aircraft specs displays aircraft specifications, automatically formatted and converted for either metric or imperial units. Usage A "note" parameter is available for every parameters for qualifying the entry.

  3. Fuselage - Wikipedia

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    The fuselage (/ ˈ f juː z əl ɑː ʒ /; from the French fuselé "spindle-shaped") is an aircraft's main body section. It holds crew , passengers, or cargo . In single-engine aircraft, it will usually contain an engine as well, although in some amphibious aircraft the single engine is mounted on a pylon attached to the fuselage, which in turn ...

  4. Lofting coordinates - Wikipedia

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    Two points on a fuselage at waterline 100/fuselage station 93 and waterline 101/fuselage station 276. Lofting coordinates are used for aircraft body measurements. The system derives from the one that was used in the shipbuilding lofting process, with longitudinal axis labeled as "stations" (usually fuselage stations, frame stations, FS), transverse axis as "buttocks lines" (or butt lines, BL ...

  5. File:Landing gear schematic.svg - Wikipedia

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    English: Landing gear of an aircraft, schematic view of the retracting mechanism. Filled circles are fixed relative to the airframe. Coloured arcs denote the locus of points. 1 Hydraulic Ram 2 Hinge Mechanism 3 Strut 4 Wheel Boss 5 Wheel . 6 Fuselage/Wing

  6. Former - Wikipedia

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    Formers are used in the construction of aircraft fuselage, of which a typical fuselage has a series from the nose cone to the empennage, typically perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the aircraft. The primary purpose of formers is to establish the shape of the fuselage and reduce the column length of stringers to prevent instability. [1]

  7. Geodetic airframe - Wikipedia

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    A section of the rear fuselage from a Vickers Warwick showing the geodetic construction in duralumin. On exhibit at the Armstrong & Aviation Museum at Bamburgh Castle.. A geodetic airframe is a type of construction for the airframes of aircraft developed by British aeronautical engineer Barnes Wallis in the 1930s (who sometimes spelt it "geodesic").

  8. Blended wing body - Wikipedia

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    A blended wing body (BWB), also known as blended body, hybrid wing body (HWB) or a lifting aerofoil fuselage, [1] is a fixed-wing aircraft having no clear dividing line between the wings and the main body of the craft. [2] The aircraft has distinct wing and body structures, which are smoothly blended together with no clear dividing line. [3]

  9. Wing root - Wikipedia

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    The wing root of a simple aircraft, an American Aviation AA-1 Yankee, showing a wing root fairing. The wing root is the part of the wing on a fixed-wing aircraft or winged-spaceship that is closest to the fuselage, [1] and is the junction of the wing with the fuselage (not with a nacelle or any other body).