nacelle

Noun

Meaning

a streamlined enclosure for an aircraft engine

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Improvements studied included raked wingtips similar to those used on the 767-400ER and a sawtooth engine nacelle for noise reduction. Source: Internet

The 737 MAX inlet is Propulsion South Carolina’s first product line, but the team’s goal is to someday develop and build an entire nacelle for an airplane model. Source: Internet

The ship has a third nacelle, cloaking ability, a spinal phaser lance, and large phaser cannons on the saucer section. Source: Internet

One P-38E was fitted with an extended central nacelle to accommodate a tandem-seat cockpit with dual controls, and was later fitted with a laminar flow wing. Source: Internet

The destruction of the Reliant s engine nacelle was created by superimposing shots of the engine blowing apart and explosions over the model. Source: Internet

The four engines each had a maximum afterburning thrust of convert and each had separate inlet ducts in each nacelle and variable intake ramps in the inlets, Goebel, Greg. Source: Internet

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