What is "air-intake"

Usage examples of "air-intake".

Now he watched in silence, taking in the slim fuselage, the bulging air-intakes in front of the massive engines, larger than anything Turmansky had ever thought of fitting to an interceptor-attack plane, the seemingly impossible stubbiness of the wings, with the advanced Anab missiles slung in position beneath them.

Kafari slapped controls, killing her air-intake system, then her aircar slashed through trailing tendrils of gas, an arm's length above the helmeted, armored line of the P-Squad's dragoons.