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What (who) is nacelle - definition
PART OF AN AIRCRAFT
Engine nacelle; Nacelles; Nacell; Engine pod; Wind turbine nacelle; Nacelle (aircraft); Nacelle (turbine)
![Twin-engine nacelle on a [[B-52]] Stratofortress](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Boeing B-52B engine nacelle.jpg?width=200 "Twin-engine nacelle on a [[B-52]] Stratofortress")
![The [[Boeing E-3 Sentry]] uses a nacelle to house its large radar.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/E-3 Sentry exercise Green Flag 2012.jpg?width=200 "The [[Boeing E-3 Sentry]] uses a nacelle to house its large radar.")
nacelle
[n?'s?l]
¦ noun
1. the outer casing of an aircraft engine.
2. the passenger compartment of an airship.
Origin
early 20th cent.: from Fr., from late L. navicella, dimin. of L. navis 'ship'.
Nacelle
·add. ·noun A small boat.
II. Nacelle ·add. ·noun A boatlike, inclosed body of an Aeroplane.
III. Nacelle ·add. ·noun The basket suspended from a balloon; hence, the framework forming the body of a dirigible balloon, and containing the machinery, passengers, ·etc.
Nacelle
A nacelle ( ) is a "streamlined body sized according to what it contains",The Cambridge Aerospace Dictionary, Bill Gunston, such as an engine, fuel, or equipment on an aircraft. When attached by a pylon entirely outside the airframe, it is sometimes called a pod, in which case it is attached with a pylon or strut and the engine is known as a podded engine.
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Nacelle
A nacelle ( nə-SEL) is a "streamlined body, sized according to what it contains", such as an engine, fuel, or equipment on an aircraft. When attached by a pylon entirely outside the airframe, it is sometimes called a pod, in which case it is attached with a pylon or strut and the engine is known as a podded engine. In some cases—for instance in the typical "Farman" type "pusher" aircraft, or the World War II-era P-38 Lightning—an aircraft cockpit may also be housed in a nacelle, rather than in a conventional fuselage.
Examples of use of nacelle
1. He can rattle off statistics about the bus–sized nacelle at the top of the tower which houses the generator and the sophisticated computer system that allows the blades to yaw into the wind.