Just missing them, the wing came down, the fuselage rested for a moment on the supporting earth and then earth, craft and all tumbled and torn by the wind, slipped on into deeper mud beyond the solid earth left just a foot beyond Garry's toes.
Garry, one foot braced against the junction of fuselage and flying wire, one hand clinging to the wire, was safe!
It had no pontoons; but on each side of the fuselage slanted auxiliary wings of thin boards had been attached by wire.
Underneath its silver-grey envelope hung a small car like the fuselageof an aeroplane.
Something, glittering in the dull light, shot from beneath the fuselage of the alert Blimp.
As it passed almost overhead the fuselage appeared to scrape the Pomfret Castle's main truck by inches.
As it drove into the water tail first the wings were torn off and floated on the surface, but the fuselage containing the engine, and with the pilot and observer, kept right on and vanished.
Its greenhouse and rear fuselage were full of holes, but its working parts were undamaged.
The blast of a small-caliber shell inside Rosy’s fuselage shocked her crew into grim alertness.
Some of the bursting antiaircraft fragments struck her fuselageand rudder.
But I can see daylight through the fuselage just behind me.
Small bullet holes appeared suddenly in the bomber’s fuselageand wings.
The fuselage might have been the belly of a blasted submarine, pitch dark and battered by ceaseless depth charges.
Barry gritted his teeth as Crayle’s fuselage rose up just ahead of his greenhouse.
His method of aviation is peculiarly his own, for, once the machine has started and got under way, he curls himself up in the body of the fuselage and goes into a sound sleep, from which he does not wake until the engine stops again.
Two hours ago they found Barker's body hidden in an old fuselage in the hangar.
The wing was twisted and bent, and the fuselage was punched full of holes.
A brace girder or perhaps a strip of herfuselage covering, but he didn't give it a second thought.
The German was completely unconscious and the deep bleeding cut in the top of his head made by contact with the fuselage girder was proof positive that he would remain unconscious for a long, long time to come.
Then he struck the rocks, was thrown forward, and heard a ripping, tearing sound as the bottom of his fuselage was crushed and mangled on the rocks.
Its tail and most of the fuselage were covered but the nose and wings and pontoons were above the surface.
As a protection in battle his seat and the front portion of the fuselage are surrounded with thin steel, and the pilot sits close to the floor, so that he does not offer a very good target to the enemy's stray bullets.
The fuselageconstruction was of wood, with a strong 8-wheeled landing chassis beneath it.
Painted and varnished the fuselage resembles a fine automobile body.
The steering apparatus is installed, the cushioned seats are placed in the cockpits, the fuselage is mounted on the wheeled chassis, and finally when all is complete the big bird is sent out for its first test flight.
Biplanes of this type now carried their engines in the fuselage bow with the pilot's seat just behind it, while instead of the front elevating plane of the earlier models, the elevating surfaces were at the rear of the fixed tail plane.
Small armored nacelles at either side of the fuselage carried its two 400 horsepower Liberty motors, each turning a separate propeller.
But it is usually heavier in weight, owing to the larger cooling system necessary and the longer crankshaft, and it takes up more room in the airplane fuselage than a motor of the compact radial type.
In the top or roof of the fuselage one or more circular openings have been cut.
A coat of varnish, a fine metal hub--and our propeller is ready to be shipped to join the wings and the fuselage and complete the manufacture of a modern airplane.
In the forward part of the fuselage cabins had been fitted, with a small deck on the bow.
Here they make only airplane propellers; there only engines; while in this factory the wings and fuselage are produced.
For this purpose thefuselage of the airplane is usually somewhat rounded and tapering toward the ends, often "egg shaped" at the nose.
Above him in the fuselage sat the rear gunner, and by their combined aid the Gotha could keep all enemy planes at a safe distance.
To-day the airplane fuselage is carefully streamlined, but the landing chassis beneath it creates a good deal of resistance to motion.
Now the wings and fuselage of our airplane are ready, and the rudder, the elevating surfaces and the ailerons are in course of production.
The fuselage is ~V~ shaped and constructed of weldless steel tubing in the form of a lattice girder.
Two long skids connected up to fuselage by metal struts.
The cold but vibrant fuselage was the last thing to feel my warm and living flesh.
It had slipped through a small opening at the top of the rear wall of the compartment and had evidently been floating around in the tail of the fuselage all that time.
A tiny sliding door was cut in the fuselage of the scout and a sort of folding ladder put inside.
He touches the spring of his ladder and it shoots out, powerfully magnetized, and clamps onto the steel fuselage of the Slav.
The fuselage began to pirouette into a sickening spiral, but the firing continued, as though to kill what was already dead.
He reversed the props and in seconds had brought the Cessna to an abrupt halt, its frail fuselage bobbing like a cork.
A splintering crash replaced the sound of the engine as the rotors slammed against the granite, shearing away--whereupon the fuselage bounced down the steep wall of the cliff and into the water.
But at that instant Odyssey II dipped in the swell and he saw sparks fly off the fuselage instead.
He felt himself flung forward, accompanied by the metallic splatter of the rotor collapsing against the granite, shearing and knocking the fuselage sideways in a series of jolts.
The planes, too, were ripped in several places, while jagged holes through the sides of the fuselage marked the accuracy of the shrapnel.
Something--what it was he was unable to ascertain--hit the fuselage with a resounding crash.
For a brief instant the body trembled in the balance, then slipping sideways the dead Boche toppled over the edge of the fuselage and fell like a stone through space.
Agilely Kirkwood swung himself over the side of the fuselage and swarmed down one of the supporting struts to the broad float.
As the seaplane drifted towards the centre of the artificial waterway he clambered nimbly to the deck of the fuselage and, lying at full length, steadied himself by grasping the coaming surrounding his surrendered place.
Further examination revealed the fact that, the motor was otherwise undamaged, although, judging by the holes in the fuselage and through the planes, it seemed wonderful that pilot and observer had escaped being hit.
Having assisted the wounded flight-lieutenant on to the float and thence into Kirkwood's seat in the fuselage Barcroft swarmed up and took his place at the joy-stick.
Striking a match he set light to the oiled paper and tossed the flaming missile into the fuselage of the doomed seaplane.
Instead of butting his head against the fuselage he might strike our propeller, which would knock him galley-west, but also disable our craft.
Let him try hittin' up against the side o' our fuselage an' see what happens to him, that's all.
The fuselageof the plane itself was going to act as a giant funnel, scooping in air.
It was like watching a hallucination, he thought, as colors swirled around the fuselage of an object seemingly composed of 3-D lines and curves.
Yuri shaded his eyes from the glare of the hangar fluorescents and pointed, directing his father's gaze toward the dark gray of the fuselage above them.
The hostile radar signature of this fuselageis almost nothing.
And along their titanium-composite fuselage was lettered a single word, in Cyrillic characters.
The high-voltage sodium lamps along the sides of the fuselage now switched on automatically as the door swung inward.
The shape of the fuselage is deliberately designed to diffuse and deflect radar.
He felt the fuselage shudder as the trucks disengaged from the eyelets on the landing gear.
They had no objection if Androv wanted to roll a stair-truck under thefuselage of Daedalus /, then climb into the underbay and inspect turbo pumps in the dead of night.
There could still be a problem," Androv continued, "when the vortex of air currents shed from the nose of the fuselage encounters the shock waves from the wings, particularly around Mach 11.
Your SX-10 only tells us how a fuselage performs if airflows are ideal," Androv replied.
All bombs are carried on the planes either suspended under the wings or fuselage of the plane or in a compartment in the fuselage.
The equipment, too, that had been used on the ground was altogether too cumbersome to go into the fuselage of an airplane.
So the fixed gun was brought down into the fuselage and made to fire through the whirling propeller.
Fortunately the wind was not blowing, and the fuselage struck the first clump of brush, but they passed over it without difficulty.
The truss from the fuselage was removed from the aviator, the man quickly drawn out from his perilous position, and carried clear of the wreck.
The body of the machine was wrecked, and the fuselage a mass of splinters.
This was now roped on thefuselage behind the Major.
Just now he was dragging from their hiding-place in the fuselage two iron tubes, perhaps eighteen inches long and six in diameter.
Then it came with a swoop, the wind whistling around their ears and the rain beating a tattoo against the fuselageof the ship, as well as striking them smartly in the face, despite such protection as their helmets and heavy goggles afforded.
My state of intense "wind up" while thefuselage was burning had apparently exhausted my stock of nervousness.
In a second the petrol is ablaze and the fuselage and wings are burning merrily.
We pancaked on to the far edge of a trench, and the wheels slid backward into the cavity, causing the lower wings and fuselage to be crumpled and broken.
As it was late, we had little leisure for preparation; the cameras were brought in a hurry from the photographic lorry, examined hastily by the observers who were to use them, and fitted into the conical recesses through the fuselage floor.
On several occasions, after a direct hit, a wounded British pilot has brought his craft to safety, with wings and fuselage weirdly ventilated and half the control wires helpless.
They plugged away while I remedied the stoppage, and several bullets ventilated the fuselage quite close to my cockpit.
The fuselage of my own machine was once set on fire by a chunk of burning H.
The old ship struck the mark so fair that she cut the wreckage into two parts, and I saw fragments of wings and fuselageboiling up on both sides of our wake astern.
I knew we were flying faster than ever before, for the fuselage was throbbing madly and you had a feeling that to escape an awful strain put upon it, the engine was trying to tear itself loose.
He saw the color of the fuselage with the last rays of the sun dancing off its smooth surface.
And then his lower wing sliced against the Nazi's fuselage and cockpit hatch.
Instantly the wingless fuselage pointed its nose downward and dropped like a bomb.
It was the German Staff markings they saw painted on the fuselage of the fleet plane as it raced by.
The fuselage buckled just in back of the cockpit, and the right wing crumpled like so much tin foil.
Bullet holes in the fuselage and cockpit cowling (or hood) showed clearly how narrow had been the margin by which death had passed them by.
His twin guns spat flame and sound, and even as Dave jerked his head around for a look, he saw a ribbon of flame dribble out from the port engine of the 88, and then sweep back over the wing and along the fuselage to the tail.
There was a row of eight of these snug-built machines, all the same type and monogram, all with machine guns strapped solidly to the fuselage of each, and with motors of great power and pliability.
At the same time he felt sharp stings pierce his arms now stretched outside the fuselageas he leaned over.
As yet his fuselage and tank, his engine and machinery were unhurt.
He was overhauling with one hand a small locker that was part of the fuselage Moreover, there were still two unused sheafs of ammunition for the Lewis gun and a few grenades and bombs.
The handle of the gun crank was handy, its deadly muzzle pointed along the top of the fuselage of each mobile plane.
Lafe pressed with his foot upon a certain button that was connected with an electric flashlight fastened in a special groove at a downward angle of the fuselage or body of the car.
With a wild eagerness and expectancy that made them seem like a couple of kids waiting for Santa Claus to come down the chimney, they stood there with bated breath, and saucer eyes fixed on the fuselage door.
The fuselage rolled over twice, and like a crazy rocket went zooming upward to smash square into a second One-Ten banking off to the side.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fuselage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: aeroplane; airplane; body; parts
