fuselage

Romeo planned to raise the fuselage and eventually install it in the Smithsonian.

In January of this year, a dummy door panel in the fuselage of an Alaskan Airline 737 Max blew out in flight, resulting in a grounding of eight months.

No matter how lofty the concept, regardless of how successfully it launches, the gravitational pull of “giving the people what they want” has a way of loosening the bolts on an otherwise tight fuselage.

Scattered across the sand was the wreckage of a massive passenger jet; one wing from the mangled fuselage pointed up toward the sky, all surrounded in a haze of smoke and fire.

It takes about an hour to build the fuselage and half that time to put the brains inside it – the electronics, motor and explosives.