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Recent Examples of airframe
This multifaceted approach demonstrates how innovative airframe technology can accelerate the industry’s shift toward cleaner travel.
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 27 Apr. 2025
China currently controls close to 90 percent of the global commercial drone market, and manufactures most of the key hardware used to build them – airframes, batteries, radios, cameras and screens, according to market research firm Drone Industry Insights UG.
—David Jeans, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
Composites enhance aerodynamics and fatigue resistance, a reason why they’re used in modern airframes like Boeing’s 787 (50 percent of the main structure) and Airbus’s A350 (53 percent).
—IEEE Spectrum, 8 Feb. 2025
Effectively, Beyond has designed a new 10-seat business jet airframe around a battery-free hydrogen-electric propulsion system.
—New Atlas, 24 Mar. 2025
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 27 Apr. 2025
China currently controls close to 90 percent of the global commercial drone market, and manufactures most of the key hardware used to build them – airframes, batteries, radios, cameras and screens, according to market research firm Drone Industry Insights UG.
—David Jeans, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
Composites enhance aerodynamics and fatigue resistance, a reason why they’re used in modern airframes like Boeing’s 787 (50 percent of the main structure) and Airbus’s A350 (53 percent).
—IEEE Spectrum, 8 Feb. 2025
Effectively, Beyond has designed a new 10-seat business jet airframe around a battery-free hydrogen-electric propulsion system.
—New Atlas, 24 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for airframe
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Police searched the Boeing 777 plane, which had about 339 passengers and 10 crewmembers, after the aircraft landed, according to an airline spokesperson.—
Summer Lin,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2025
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However, the aircraft itself did suffer a lot of damage.—
Moná Thomas,
People.com,
22 May 2025
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But now, the sight of American airplanes over Manila signaled a shift in the tide of war.—
Jeff Langholz,
Sun Sentinel,
25 May 2025
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Rogue Nation opens with Ethan dangling from an airplane and ups the intensity from there via a globe-trotting plot that takes Ethan from London to Vienna to Casablanca and back again.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
23 May 2025
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Some contrails last long enough for other planes to fly by creating crisscrossing lines.—
Martin E. Comas,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 May 2025
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Why the Dodgers are using two planes on road trips this year May 23, 2025 Maybe on a night the Dodgers’ bullpen was fresh, Roberts could have considered summoning a lefty to face Soto once Gonsolin began floundering.—
Jack Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
25 May 2025
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The Knight IEMs ship with high-quality 8-core OCC cable with OFC silver plating.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2025
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The currents in the East River are quite strong, and may have been one of the causes why the Mexican Navy ship Cuauhtémoc crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge earlier this month.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
31 May 2025
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The Hindenburg crash effectively brought about the end of the commercial airship industry.—
John Otis,
New York Times,
3 May 2025
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The museum’s showstopper is the Gulliver Airship, a fantastic and imaginative 130-foot-long wood and steel zeppelin inspired by airships of the early twentieth century.—
Elizabeth Brownfield,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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The soldier is American, while the helicopter belongs to the Royal Canadian Air Force.—
Gavin John,
New York Times,
31 May 2025
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The injured man, who was conscious at the time, was put into a harness and flown while attached to the helicopter with the 150-foot rope, Soukup said.—
Summer Lin,
Los Angeles Times,
31 May 2025
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“Airframe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airframe. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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