fuselage
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Spirit built the fuselage of the Alaska Airlines plane where the door plug blew off midflight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
But that timeframe fell by the wayside after the two fatal crashes, which were followed by a near-catastrophic January 2024 Alaska Airlines flight in which a fuselage panel blew out mid-flight.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
Last month, explorers discovered the ruins of the Douglas DC-4 aircraft using an autonomous sonar drone that detected the aircraft's fuselage and tail.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Putting the forward fuselage of a retired Boeing 747 into the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington required workers to cut the plane into numerous pieces and then reassemble it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
An engineer named Richard Whitcomb noticed that in the transonic speed range, the greatest turbulence occurred at the point where the wings of a model plane connected to its fuselage.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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