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Tech/Engineering - Aerospace / Aviation / Space / helicopters | | Italian term or phrase: cellula dell'elicottero | This is the main body of a helicopter - i.e. the bit between the cockpit and the tail boom. Is there a specific technical term?
Thx in advance
Alison |
| | | helicopter fuselage | Explanation:
As per Google:
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=helicopter fuselage&fp=c57393...
Airframe tends to refer to the whole aircraft. When an airline talks about buying planes, for example, they talk about purchasing x number of airframes.
You could even get away with using body, but I'm pretty sure that fuselage is the way to go.
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Note added at 1 day1 hr (2009-12-17 22:00:47 GMT)
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In an airplane, the term fuselage refers to the tube, but not the wings and tail and undercarriage, so you can see by analogy that the term applies to helos as well, that is, to the main body. Airframe, even under the Garzanti definition provided by Monia, instead covers the whole animal. |
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| Grading comment Thx. This is the correct answer I sat on it and found a similar reference. This was one of my first guesses. Thx also to other answerers and Happy Xmas to all!
Alison
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Explanation:
As per Google:
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=helicopter fuselage&fp=c57393...
Airframe tends to refer to the whole aircraft. When an airline talks about buying planes, for example, they talk about purchasing x number of airframes.
You could even get away with using body, but I'm pretty sure that fuselage is the way to go.
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Note added at 1 day1 hr (2009-12-17 22:00:47 GMT)
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In an airplane, the term fuselage refers to the tube, but not the wings and tail and undercarriage, so you can see by analogy that the term applies to helos as well, that is, to the main body. Airframe, even under the Garzanti definition provided by Monia, instead covers the whole animal.
| claudiocambon
United States
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| | Grading comment Thx. This is the correct answer I sat on it and found a similar reference. This was one of my first guesses. Thx also to other answerers and Happy Xmas to all!
Alison |
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