单词 | fuselage |
释义 | fuselagen. The elongated body of an aeroplane, to which the wings and tail unit are attached and which (in modern aircraft) contains the crew and the passengers or cargo. (In early use given slightly varying meanings: see quots.) ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > fuselage fuselage1909 1909 Flight 19 June 366/2 The aeroplane itself was considerably damaged, the fuselage which carries the elevating-plane in front..being completely broken. 1910 R. Ferris How it Flies xx. 461 Fuselage, the framework of the body of an aeroplane. 1913 A. E. Berriman Aviation 249 Another French word at present in common use is fuselage, meaning the girder-like backbone employed in modern aeroplane design. This member also forms the body of the machine. 1913 Times 14 Apr. 4/1 The number of machines which have broken their fuselage—to say nothing of their wings. 1913 A. H. Verrill Harper's Aircraft Bk. xi. 120 The parts of an aeroplane are mainly the frame, or ‘chassis’; the body, or ‘fuselage’; the wings, or ‘planes’; [etc.]. 1918 W. L. Cowley & H. Levy Aeronautics vii. 141 The fuselage connecting the body and the tail system exists purely to provide support for the latter. 1932 E. Bowen To North xvii. 175 Catching the full summer sun on its wings and fuselage.., the plane evenly passed to the coast. 1960 C. H. Gibbs-Smith Aeroplane i. xvi. 129 The construction of a large conventional all-metal aeroplane of today..is stressed skin, with (in the fuselage) the metal skin laid over a multiple system of ring-line formers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1909 |
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