Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A major structural member of an aircraft fuselage, running from front to rear.
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- noun A thin
strip ofwood ormetal , to which theskin of anaircraft isfastened .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The problem is with a lodge strip of metal called the longeron, which essentially holds the fuselage together.
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In fact, they're the ones who determined the longeron was the problem.
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Mostholidaying bird-lovers have their own favourites on their lists - or rather no longeron their lists.
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Mostholidaying bird-lovers have their own favourites on their lists - or rather no longeron their lists.
Books 2009
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Major Stephen Stillwell, a Missouri Air Guard pilot, was flying his F-15, attempting an 8G turn at 500 miles an hour when there was a major structural failure in something called the longeron.
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She told her also, now entirely reassured by Aggie's voice, that they had been much longeron the way than they had expected, and were now getting anxious.
Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864
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Patria repaired the aircraft using structures sourced from a damaged F-18C, with major activities having included fitting a new starboard wing, engine intake and control surfaces, and making repairs to the aircraft's centre fuselage longeron.
HEADLINES 2010
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Patria repaired the aircraft using structures sourced from a damaged F-18C, with major activities having included fitting a new starboard wing, engine intake and control surfaces, and making repairs to the aircraft's centre fuselage longeron.
HEADLINES 2010
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Patria repaired the aircraft using structures sourced from a damaged F-18C, with major activities having included fitting a new starboard wing, engine intake and control surfaces, and making repairs to the aircraft's centre fuselage longeron.
HEADLINES 2010
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(DAS) subsidiary has been awarded an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract for the V-22 Osprey titanium longeron assemblies.
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