Bally Heck

So....does any one know the etymology of the word "fuselage"?

I was just looking at the word. And you know how words sometimes seem funny when you look at them. Well fuselage did.

And then I thought, how on earth did this word come to mean the bit of an aircraft which joins the wings to the tail and cockpit. Despite being a Latin and Greek scholar, it's beyond me.

And as for empennage

So, thought I, the academia of PPRuNe are unlikely to disapoint!

Rollingthunder

A variation on the word Musilage, meaning stuck together with glue, and your life depends on it.

Bally Heck

But sadly, I was proved wrong

Rollingthunder

I'm sure there is more to come.

Bally Heck

I sometimes wonder if my time is wasted trying to drag you people off the intellectual hard deck

Rollingthunder

Quel est le fuselage?

Le fuselage porte toute la cargaison nécessaire dans un avion, par exemple, l'équipage de vol, la
cargaison, et ou les passagers. Selon la fa¸on dont vous regardez des choses, le fuselage est la partie la
plus importante ou la plus la moins importante sur un avion. Mais une chose est pour certain, il fait gêner
qu'aidant dans l'aspect de vol.

Les lignes aériennes commerciales visualisent le fuselage comme logement pour des passagers, tandis
que les compagnies de fret le voient en tant que plus d'un récipient d'entreposage pour leur cargaison. Très
simplement, le fuselage est là pour mettre la substance dedans. Sans compter que ce rôle que le fuselage
joue, il également fournit à l'avion un certain ascenseur. Dans la plupart des cas cet ascenseur est plutôt
non significatif, mais aux vitesses élevées et à moins de poids, cette force d'ascenseur devient beaucoup
plus importante.

Bally Heck

Obviously. It is.

Rollingthunder

Intentionally Blank

Bally Heck

Intentionally Blank

henry crun

Bally Heck, one of my dictionaries says,

Fuselage: French, from fuseler, to shape like a spindle,
from fuseau, spindle, from old French fusel, spindle, diminutive of
fus, spindle, from Latin fusus. (should be - above the first u in fusus but my keyboard cannot provide it)

Just an other number

and my book says

empennage

arrangement of stabilizing surfaces at the tail of an aircraft
[French, from empenner ‘to feather’ (an arrow)]

Bally Heck

Thank you Gentlemen.

We may synthesise an answer here.

Bally Heck

Perhaps I should add that I was only joking about being a Latin scholar.

Tartan Gannet

I copied Rollingthunder's post into translator software and here is the result.

Try saying it in a Peter Sellers French accent or Marty Feldman reading the HP Sauce label in French




< starts> "What is the fuselage?

The fuselage carries the whole necessary cargo in a plane, for example, the crew of flight, the,
cargo, and or the passengers. According to the fa¸con of which you look at the things, the fuselage is the part the
more important or the more least important on a plane. But a thing is for certain, it makes embarrass
that helping in the aspect of flight.

The commercial airlines visualize the fuselage like lodging for passengers, while
that the companies of freight see it as more of a storage container for their cargo. Very
merely, the fuselage is there to put the substance in. Without counting that this role that the fuselage
cheek, he/it also provides to the plane a certain elevator. In most cases this elevator is rather
non meaningful, but to the elevated speeds and to less of weight, this strength of elevator becomes a lot
more important. " <ends>

C'est tres facile, n'est ce pas?

Rollingthunder

fuselage - 1909, from Fr. fuselage, from fuselé "spindle-shaped,"

from O.Fr. *fus "spindle,"

from L. fusus "spindle."

Captain Stable

Hence also "fusil" (="rifle")

BlueEagle

fu·se·lage (fyū'sə-läzh', -zə-)
n.
The central body of an aircraft, to which the wings and tail assembly are attached and which accommodates the crew, passengers, and cargo.

[French, from fuselé, spindle-shaped, from Old French fusel, spindle, from Vulgar Latin *fūsellus, diminutive of Latin fūsus.]


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Translations for: Fuselage
Nederlands (Dutch)
romp van vliegtuig

Français (French)
fuselage

Deutsch (German)
n. - Flugzeugrumpf

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. άτρακτος (αεροσκάφους κ.λπ.), σκελετός

Italiano (Italian)
fusoliera

Português (Portuguese)
n. - fuselagem (f) (Aer.)

Русский (Russian)
фюзеляж

Español (Spanish)
n. - fuselaje

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - (flyg)kropp

中国话 (Simplified Chinese)
n. - 机身

中國話 (Traditional Chinese)
n. - 機身

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 胴体

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) جسم الطائرة‏

עברית‬ (Hebrew)
n. - *גוף המטוס‬


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Not a lot of people know that!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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brockenspectre

TG when I read through the translation into franglais I have to say that I heard it in the voice of Hercules Poirot (as portrayed by John Suchet) ...prefaced with a "my dear Hastings"!!!

B9

oops sorry.. I thought this was a thread about insects.

rainbow

Rollingthunder mentions 1909 on the previous page. To quote "fuselage- 1909, from Fr. ..."

I liked that because I was reminded that in 1909 Bleriot, a Frenchman (as you all know), flew the channel from Calais to Dover. And that in a few years we will be celebrating the flight.

And as likely as not, there will be a few folk about who were born in 1909 and who will be living in 2009 who will confirm that that was truly an extraordinary century of flight. Just a thought.