Nacelle in a sentence as a noun

But moved the nacelle forward, which changed the flight characteristics, causing the plane to pitch its nose up.

All those planes with the engine nacelle covers open, showing the intricate tubing and turbine housings.

I have met many design engineers that have never been inside of a nacelle or even visited a wind farm.

Basically, the new engine nacelle shape and placement contribute extra lift at high AoA.

The nacelle went into production with aluminum inlet lips.

The difference is that the jet and rocket would be separate vehicles instead of fitting into one nacelle.

I was in the nacelle of a wind turbine when a surprise small tornado came to town, we were full on rodeo mode with the tower swaying back and forth.

The engines are contained in a printed protective nacelle to prevent fault propagation in the event of an engine failure.

Almost no light aircraft do. There's a limit to how much slip a large engined transport aircraft with underwing engines can tolerate before the engine nacelle will scrape the ground, so designers of those airplanes have had to allow for crabbed touchdowns in strong crosswinds.

For example, the "warp nacelle" concept is fundamental to that universe, and at least until the newer series, it was maintained across a lot of different cultures' ships.

A former boss of mine designed a carbon nacelle inlet lip for a popular airliner, but it was a short haul aircraft, which means lots of trips, which means lots of abuse from careless ground handlers.

Question for an aeronautical engineer: Can you take the engine nacelle of an airplane and rotate it vertically?So instead of being horizontal, can it be vertical, where the exhaust points down?

We must have been well into the six figures on one particular nacelle in post-fabrication engineering analysis work, just to show that the flaws had been repaired adequately for entry into service.

All you do is run wiring down the wings, with the Osprey you're running pressurized, flexible fuel lines into a movable nacelle with enormously complex turbomachinery to do all of the compression + combustion.

Nacelle definitions

noun

a streamlined enclosure for an aircraft engine