What is "faired"

Usage examples of "faired".

Just shy of eighty-five irals in length, she was slim as a needle, with a tiny, ultraraked flight bridge faired into a sharply pointed nose and two prominent, blisterlike housings high on either side of the hull, approximately ten irals abaft the side Hyperscreens.

No weapon was released because the plane carried none, but a tone sounded on the radio and was captured on all the tapes, and it ceased abruptly at the weapons-release point, interrupted by the electronic pulse to the empty bomb rack cunningly faired into the airplane's belly.

To either side engineers worked feverishly to shore and strengthen the hasty walls that had been faired over the opening.

Buildings had been sealed and faired over or had concrete slabs piled in front of them to prevent any entry by the Posleen on that side.

But as the top of the bridge was faired almost flush with the rise in the fuselage aft, he silently predicted it would also be troublesome during a stem attack.

The most widely used commercial vessels of a bygone era-and long afterward-ED-4s had the snub-nosed bow and elongated, teardrop hull that characterized a whole generation of starships, Their flight bridges with old-fashioned V-shaped Hyperscreens forward were faired smoothly into the top of their hulls, and large side ports gave them the frowning, raptorlike countenance that whole generations of children associated with the romance of starflight.

No more than eighty irals overall, she comprised three separate torpedo-shaped hulls, the bottom two closely joined by streamlined fairings to a smaller, topmost body with a cramped-looking flight bridge faired into its forward end.

The machine-gun positions in the sides of the fuselage were also gone, and faired over.

With its openings faired oveg it was dark, except where the sun made beams of light through open rivet holes and unrepaired bullet and shrapnel holes.

We got another five or six knots when we faired over the waist-gun position.

The float skids, normally long and faired extrusions of the pod’s bottom curve, had been cranked out manually and locked in position.

If not for the Tomaszkow's goodness we may have faired a lot worse, physically and mentally.

An angular series of Hyperscreen plates formed a flight bridge centered on the hull that rose from a position about a third of the way aft and faired back into the wedge some twenty-five irals from the stern, where it ended at a high, angular fin, more indication that this starship—if indeed it was a starship—spent minimum time among the stars.

Shuttered turrets for the energy weapons and missile launchers were faired into me hull.

The afternoon faired up: grand clouds still voyaged in the sky, but now singly, and with a depth of blue around their path.