Questions tagged [fuselage]
The main body of the airplane that holds the cargo and passengers.
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To be considered airworthy, are commercial aircraft fuselages required to support some amount of external overpressure without buckling?
I was thinking about whether an aircraft is designed to use internal pressure to maintain its rigidity (like some rockets) and then realized that this would probably be a bad idea because then a loss ...
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Range, Endurance and Fuel Cost Savings of an Aircraft
I have recently carried out CFD simulations on the A320 fuselage and modified its fuselage. I did this by matching the Reynold's number of the cruising altitude. The reference values were taken at ...
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What is this strake near the nose of the MD-80 for?
What is this for on the MD-80?
Is it a stabilizer?
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Why don't Airbus planes have perfectly smooth front sections?
From time to time I like to watch a planespotting video and I must say that one tiny detail bothers me a slight bit.
Look at this Boeing plane:
And at this Airbus:
In particular, examine the section ...
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What are the bulges (with what look like air intakes) on the lower fuselage of the An-22?
On both side of the lower fuselage of the AN-22 there are long bulges. While the undercarriage doors are visible, they only account for a small proportion of the length, making me doubt they're just ...
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How much does the wing of a 6-seater plane weigh?
I could find plenty of information regarding the total weight (empty operating weight, maximum landing weight, and maximum takeoff weight) of every plane in commercial production. However, I could not ...
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Why doesn't Su-57 blend the engine nacelles with the fuselage, like other 5th generation fighters?
All the current and upcoming 5th generation fighter aircraft have increasingly similar physical layouts regardless of their origin. This seems to be due to similar design choices around stealth and ...
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Is there a clear cut method for cutout on structural members?
I have been looking into fuselage cutouts especially, window cutouts on the skin panel for a school project. Reading Bruhn and Niu Books, both state that there are no clear cut methods for fuselage ...
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Does the cross-sectional shape of a fuselage affect drag?
Comparing two bodies with the same streamlined longitudinal shape, and the same cross-sectional area, one with a circular cross-sectional shape, the other with a quadratic cross-sectional shape, ...
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Why doesn’t lightning punch a hole in the fuselage?
Electric arcing creates a huge temperature in the air around it. When lightning strikes planes, why doesn’t this high temperature air melt/deform the aircraft skin? Also can these high temperatures ...
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Why was the SR-71 made of titanium?
The temperature of the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird's fuselage never exceeded 500 Celsius, which, to my knowledge, would be perfectly tolerated by stainless steel. So, why titanium?
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Why don't airliner vertical tails extend to the very aft of the fuselage?
Looking at several modern airliners, the root of the vertical tail doesn't extend right to the aft-most point of the fuselage. This seems counter-intuitive given extending the tail further aft would ...
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What is a battery pod?
On a manual in school was written: 'The fuselage battery pod must be made in a metal to improve the impact resistance'.
What is meant with battery pod here?
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What is the round tube mounted on the roof just behind the windshield of a PC-6?
If you look at the below image:
(image source: Wikimedia Commons)
There are three "antennas" mounted on the forward portion of the cabin roof. The two rear, wing-shaped ones probably are ...
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Why is the cross-sectional shape of some airliners' nose not perfectly a circle?
I found that the cross-sectional shape of some jet airliners' nose is not perfectly a circle. For example the Boeing 737 aircraft:
(source: aeroprints.com via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0)
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