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Definition of Nacelles
1. nacelle [n] - See also: nacelle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nacelles
Literary usage of Nacelles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Decadal Survey of Civil Aeronautics: Foundation for the Future by National Research Council (U.S.) (2006)
"C19 Advanced engine nacelle structures Engine nacelles ... nacelles enclose the
jet engine and pylons provide means for mounting the engine on the airframe. ..."
2. Aeroplane Structures by Alfred John Sutton Pippard, John Laurence (1919)
"The lift upon the wings and the loading upon the spars are found in exactly the
same way as for a single engine aeroplane, but at the engine nacelles there ..."
3. The Romance of Aircraft by Laurence Yard Smith (1919)
"motors are carried in two smaller cars or bodies called " nacelles " at either
... It carries its two 12-cylinder Rolls- Royce engines in small nacelles ..."
4. Vehicles of the Air: A Popular Exposition of Modern Aeronautics with Working by Victor Lougheed (1909)
"For the more elaborate cars, or "nacelles", of dirigibles, they prove less
suitable, it being difficult to make such elongated structures as this type ..."
5. Vehicles of the Air: A Popular Exposition of Modern Aeronautics with Working by Victor Lougheed (1910)
"For the more elaborate cars, or "nacelles", of dirigibles, they prove less suitable,
... The nacelles of several typical ..."
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