How to Use airframe in a Sentence

airframe

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  • Removing 40% of the seats doesn’t make the plane burn much less fuel or change the airframe’s weight.
    — Ben Baldanza, Forbes, 24 June 2022
  • The 800 will have two motors, powered by a grid of electric cells across the airframe.
    — Daniel Bachmann, Robb Report, 26 Apr. 2021
  • On top of all that, the Army wants a plethora of features packed into a tiny airframe.
    — Michael Peck, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Spare parts are hard to find and airframes are fatigued, in large part to the bomber’s role as a close air support aircraft over Afghanistan.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 Feb. 2020
  • Although the airframes are decades old, the avionics in the two jets are reportedly as good as those in the F-35, if not newer.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Now, the six-decade-old airframe could pick up yet another role: seaplane.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 21 May 2021
  • Many of the items, like these airframe door stops, include nuggets of behind-the-scenes information.
    — Julia Buckley, CNN, 29 Sep. 2022
  • For one thing, other than the B-2 Spirit there are no large, stealthy airframes ready to convert into tankers.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 Jan. 2019
  • The baseline Su-34 borrows the airframe of the Su-27 fighter but adds a two-person cockpit with side-by-side seating.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 18 July 2022
  • Plans for a large force of B-2 Spirit bombers eventually got scaled back to just 21 airframes.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2017
  • The choppers share a common lineage dating back to the Vietnam War, and in some cases, also the same airframe.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 Oct. 2020
  • It was also supposed to increase the lifespan of aircraft by putting less stress on their airframes.
    — sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 June 2017
  • Birds are light for their size because many of their bones are hollow, and some are fused into rigid, airframe-like structures.
    — Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2013
  • Damage to the aircraft can occur not just from an outright crash, but from undue stress on the airframe and engine.
    — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 17 Aug. 2020
  • The morning run was captured by The Washington Post through a camera affixed to Dmytro’s airframe.
    — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2023
  • By keeping the shock waves separated on the airframe, the noise of a sonic boom can be reduced to a lower rumble.
    — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Planes have become lighter through the use of composite materials, like those that make up about half of the airframe of a Boeing 787.
    — Henry Fountain, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2016
  • As noted above, the P-8 airframe is based on the Boeing 737 commercial transport.
    — Loren Thompson, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The second test airframe once provided the structure for a restaurant in Moscow's Gorky Park.
    — National Geographic, 12 Apr. 2016
  • The aerial vehicles have been so effective at combat that most of the drone rotors and airframes that filled the basement workshop would be gone by the end of the week.
    — Valerie Hopkins, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2023
  • But neither Boeing nor the White House provided any details, including the cost of the airframes, about where the savings came from.
    — Mark Dent, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Marble sinks were too heavy on the airframe, where every inch is scrutinized to save space and weight, so faux-marble was installed.
    — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2018
  • For more than 40 years, the Army has relied on the UH-60 Blackhawk airframe as the service’s medium assault helicopter.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The metal in the airframe is recycled, but that accounts for just 1% to 3% of revenue from a disassembly.
    — Mike Cherney, WSJ, 4 June 2021
  • The Air Force today is flying older airframes — the fleet has an average age of 27 years — than at any time since its inception.
    — Jim Talent, National Review, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Senior said in December that the business, which makes structural components for the jet’s airframe and engine, was up for sale.
    — Ben Dummett, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2020
  • Zunum is planning to develop the propulsion system in house, but the startup is looking for a contractor to design and build the airframe.
    — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Ukroboronprom didn’t mention the cost of resurrecting the second airframe, but Antonov has even tried crowdfunding the project.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 25 May 2022
  • The impact on a plane with a traditional metal airframe is often minimal because the current passes along the skin from the front to the back, then exits to the ground.
    — Dominic Gates, chicagotribune.com, 11 Dec. 2019
  • There’s a new very modern glass cockpit and a stronger composite airframe that will reduce weight and vibration.
    — Allison Barrie, Fox News, 13 July 2017

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