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Main body of an aircraft

The fuselage is an aircraft's main body section. It holds the crew, passengers or cargo, and in single-engine aircraft usually the engine; in some amphibious aircraft the engine is instead mounted on a pylon above a fuselage that doubles as a floating hull. The fuselage also carries the wings, empennage and landing gear, holding the control and stabilizing surfaces in a fixed relationship to the lifting surfaces on which the aircraft's stability and control depend. It is one of the principal components of the airframe. Wikipedia →

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Noun The main body of an aerospace vehicle; the long central structure of an aircraft to which the wings (or rotors), tail, and engines are attached, and which accommodates crew and cargo.

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