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Some of aircraft’s fliers, unhappy initially, see about delay (8)

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I believe the answer is:

fuselage

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'some of aircraft's fliers unhappy initially see about delay' is the definition.
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'fliers unhappy initially see about delay' is the wordplay.
'initially' indicates taking the first letters.
'about' is an insertion indicator.
'delay' becomes 'lag' (lag is a kind of delay).
The first letters of 'fliers unhappy' is 'fu'.
'see' placed around 'lag' is 'selage'.
'fu'+'selage'='FUSELAGE'

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(Other definitions for fuselage that I've seen before include "Main body of aircraft" , "Aircraft's body" , "part of plane" , "body of fighter?" , "part of aircraft" .)

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