Airframe Definition

ârfrām
airframes
noun
The structure of an aircraft, such as an airplane, helicopter, or rocket, exclusive of its engine.
American Heritage
The structural framework and covering of an airplane, rocket, etc., not including the engine and its related parts.
Webster's New World

The main body and structure of an aircraft (without the powerplant).

This airframe has 2600 flight hours on it; the powerplant has just over 800.
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Noun

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airframe
Plural:
airframes

Origin of Airframe

Airframe Sentence Examples

  • The big surprise of course for 2004 is just how much I used the airframe - a test bike which I still have.

  • Captain Barnwell turned to his shipyard experience and designed an airframe using duralumin sheets.

  • For an aircraft, for example, such components might include the airframe, engine and avionics systems.

  • After completing its test program this aircraft was used as an instructional airframe by the museum in 1983.

  • One bike we hadn't seen the previous day, but which was available for testing today, was the new airframe.

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