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  • noun Plural form of airframe.

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Examples

  • The jobs include engineers, salespeople, marketing staff and "touch labor," which Hancock is quoted as identifying as airframes and power plants mechanics and avionics technicians.

    The Herald-Mail Online 2009

  • The jobs include engineers, salespeople, marketing staff and "touch labor," which Hancock is quoted as identifying as airframes and power plants mechanics and avionics technicians.

    The Herald-Mail Online 2009

  • The crew has trained in several technical areas, such as airframes, hydraulics and avionics, electrical systems, maintenance control and most importantly training the flight crew attached to VMM-263.

    THE TENSION 2009

  • "The SDSR has already made clear there will be a reduction in the number of assets and airframes across all three services, and that the RAF would be reduced by around 5,000 personnel to a total of about 33,000 by 2015," he said.

    RAF to sack 100 student pilots – writing off £300m training 2011

  • Is it being proposed that new airframes are to be manufactured or just conversions of existing ones?

    The F-15 Silent Eagle | My[confined]Space 2009

  • These aging airframes reportedly will get sophisticated radars and electronic countermeasures that in some ways will make them more capable than the U.S. Air Force's own F-16s.

    Splitting Taiwan's Baby 2011

  • They flew those old airframes like madmen, something to see.

    Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009

  • They flew those old airframes like madmen, something to see.

    Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009

  • Countries that cannot afford to build fleets of the most advanced supersonic fighters can afford to build pods with clever software to mount on older airframes.

    The Last Ace 2009

  • In noting the Comet's passing from service, he fails to note that Britain's Royal Air Force has kept flying a fleet of Nimrod MR2 surveillance planes that are built on Comet airframes.

    Shrinking the World Daniel Michaels 2010

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