longeron

There was a crack like a pistol shot as a main longeron broke.

The corroded right longeron has been completed and the left one is being restored.

The hull was a normal frame and longeron design with chines.

The nearly rectangular tailplane was mounted on the upper longeron.

The elliptical cross-section required an additional longeron on each side of the fuselage.

He braced himself against a twisted longeron and stared down towards the road about half a kilometre away.

Each was supported from below by a pair of struts mounted on the lower fuselage longeron.

Sometimes the terms "longeron" and "stringer" are used interchangeably.

The wings are braced on each side with a single lift strut to a lower fuselage longeron.

Longeron--The term usually applied to any long spar running length- ways of a fuselage.

In a report released on 10 January 2008, nine other F-15s were identified to have similar problems in the longeron.

In early April 2010, Boeing identified a possible defect in a part at the top of the fuselage called a longeron.

Coop Gunther tested a slender wooden longeron, which broke with a punky snap.

On 10 January 2008, the accident review board released its report stating the 2 November crash was related to the longeron not meeting drawing specifications.

A fifth longeron ran centrally above them, positioned so that the overall fuselage section was an isosceles triangle at the rear.

These Vs leaned outwards, their base on the lower wing strengthened with a further single strut to the upper fuselage longeron.

One of the principal problems encountered in club use was a tendency for the main undercarriage leg to break at the junction with the upper longeron.

To withstand strong forces during a dive, heavy plating was fitted, along with brackets riveted to the frame and longeron, to the fuselage.

Le Longeron is a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France.

The lower ends of the X-strut met the wing further outboard, at the bottom of a strut that ran to the upper fuselage longeron.

The fixed, conventional undercarriage mounted each mainwheel to the lower fuselage longeron with a V-shaped pair of struts.

The Gnome is an all wood low-wing monoplane, each wing braced from above with a slender strut to the upper fuselage longeron.

On 4 November 1914, Shephard narrowly escaped after the longeron of his BE2b, "487", was shot through.

An investigation later showed that the most likely cause of the accident was a failure in the upper fuselage longeron, probably a result of fatigue or corrosion.