empennage


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Synonyms for empennage

the rear part of an aircraft

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TLMAL exemplifies the Make in India goals and has the distinction of being the single global source of C-130J empennage assemblies that are installed on all new Super Hercules aircraft produced in Marietta, Georgia, in the United States.
In 2014, Strata's first shipset of empennage ribs was installed in a 777-300ER (Extended Range) which was delivered to Emirates Airline.
Strata said it will manufacture 777X empennage ribs at its facility in the Nibras Al Ain Aerospace Park in Abu Dhabi.
Strata will manufacture 777X empennage ribs at its state-of-the-art facility in the Nibras Al Ain Aerospace Park in Abu Dhabi.
The airplane sustained substantial damage to both wings, the fuselage and the empennage.
First, the basic principle of the three-dimensional CST method is introduced briefly; then the aircraft characteristic components library is established, including fuselage, wing, and empennage; on this basis, the structural modeling method is presented in detail, and the aeroelastic modeling and analysis process is constructed; finally, a static aeroelastic analysis example is used to verify the proposed aeroelastic modeling and analysis process.
Aircraft components such as empennage, wings, fuselage, undercarriage, pistons, and turbine engines are made of individual parts that operate in a closed orientation.
Meanwhile, industrial partners are also working on radical technologies for the SFWA project, including an innovative power-plant, empennage and rear-fuselage concept.
Nearly all aircraft make use of composites needing Astroseal's "Astrostrike" products for both shielding and lightning protection on large areas of the fuselage, wings, empennage, stabilizers, engine nacelles, propellers, winglets and the rotor blades.
Our current production rate is around four to five every month." The JV with Lockheed Martin makes centre wing boxes and empennage for the latter's C-130J Super Hercules military transport aircraft.
aHexcel is proud to be a partner-supplier to Airbus and to have Hexcel carbon fiber and composite materials incorporated into so many structural parts of the A350 XWB.a Hexcelas carbon fiber/epoxy prepreg is used to manufacture all composite primary structures of the aircraft, including the fuselage panels, keel beam, wing and the empennage. The A350 XWB lower wing cover is the biggest single civil aviation part ever made from carbon fiber, measuring 32 meters long.
The report “Aerospace Plastics Market By Application (Airframe & Fuselage, Wings & Rotor Blades, Empennage, Flight Deck & Cockpit, Cabin Areas), By End User (Commercial & Freighter Aircrafts, Military Aircrafts, Rotary Aircrafts, General Aviation) And Segment Forecasts To 2020” is available now to Grand View Research customers and can also be purchased directly at http://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/aerospace-plastics-market
The impact of the crash was such that pictures from the site show only the empennage, an arrangement of stabilising surfaces at the tail of an aircraft -- remained intact.
Hydraulic fluid was leaking from the elevator and rudder-booster compartment (located inside the empennage section of the aircraft), also known as the "hell hole." Arriving at the aircraft, I spoke with the flight engineer about the discrepancy, and asked if he could have someone cycle the rudder-flight-control system while I troubleshot the leak.