What is "nacelles"

Usage examples of "nacelles".

As the fusion bottle fed more power to the nacelles, the blades tilted on their axes so that they drove the air rather than merely cutting it.

He twisted the grip, angling the nacelles back so that their thrust pushed the combat car instead of just lifting it.

Not high, not even a finger's breadth, but enough to free the skirt from the decking and allow the rear nacelles to shove her forward.

The driver, inexperienced or jumpy from the long wait, canted his nacelles too suddenly.

The blast from the bow nacelles dug like a firehose into the gravel roadway, then sprayed the spoil into the crowd with the energy required to float thirty tonnes of combat vehicle.

Tranter had fooled him by the skill with which he coaxed the nacelles into a smooth delivery of power, balancing acceleration against blade angle so perfectly that the speed of the eight fans didn't drop below optimum.

Instead of setting the blades to zero incidence, she'd chosen to cock the nacelles against one another in pairs so that they were already flowing maximum air and wouldn't have to accelerate against a fluid mass when it came time to move.

When the drivers tilted their nacelles forward, the cars would drop into ground effect and lurch into action on the thrust of those fans.

Huber bellowed, though the driver had already cut back on the car's speed by bringing the fan nacelles closer to vertical.

So far as he could tell, the nacelles were tuned as sweetly as if they'd just been blueprinted in the factory.

The eight fan nacelles hadn't been damaged, so Maintenance had stripped them off the hulk.

Sulu found himself responding almost before he was consciously aware of the need to do so, flinging the shuttle across the vector of the blast instead of fighting it, then spiraling its uncontrolled tumble into a gravity-assisted dive that made the metal nacelles scream in protest as he exceeded their strain limit.

Some rational part of his brain knew that all the maneuver would accomplish would be to finish the job of tearing off the cargo shuttle’s nacelles and strand him on this unknown world forever.

Then, just as he crossed over the edge of the black stone terrace and into weapons range, Sulu began a sharp banking turn at the tightest angle he could manage and still keep the nacelles from shearing off.

Sulu dragged the shuttle back to equilibrium with difficulty—the torn nacelles had a tendency to exaggerate every loss of stability into a sideways roll.