What is "intakes"

Usage examples of "intakes".

The lifting fuselage and invisible intakes and the canards and the black color, it didn't look like a real airplane.

The engine air intakes were on top of the plane, behind the cockpit, which seated two crewmen in tandem.

That involves more structural strengthening, computer-operated secondary intakes, loss of some stealthiness.

This bird was tactical navy gray, with engine intakes in the wing roots and no canards.

Yet with the intakes on top of the plane, behind the cockpit, maybe the air reaching them was too turbulent when the plane was all cocked up in the landing configuration.

With the nose at ten degrees above the horizon and the power at 70 percent, she let the plane coast into the first one, but didn't get there because the pitty-pat thumping began in the intakes and increased in intensity to a drumming rat-a-tat-tat played by a drunk.

Sure enough, the pounding of turbulent air in the intakes began just before the main wheels kissed the runway.

At high angles of attack the intakes are blanked off by the cockpit and the shape of the fuselage, that aerodynamic shape.

He looked for some weakness, some flaw in the massive armor, but in the few seconds before she was overhead, he saw she was impregnable, except for the air intakes to the turbo engines, like a pair of hooded eyes above the upper pilot's canopy.

The intakes were screened by debris suppressors, bossed light metal discs that inhibited the dust and debris thrown up by the downdraft of the rotors when the helicopter hovered close to the ground from being sucked into the turbines.

However, the debris suppressors were not so substantial as to prevent the Stinger missiles flying clearly into the intakes, and Sean saw that there was a gap around the edge of the metal boss wide enough for a man to stick his head through.

The breeze curling through the access port and the fan intakes did nothing but drift grit into the eyes of the two men lying on their backs in the plenum chamber.

The tank's intakes sucked the tops of low bushes toward her from the roadside.

The thin, dangerous haze of electrical fires spurted out of the fan intakes and the holes shots had ripped in the hull.

The tank’s intakes sucked the tops of low bushes toward her from the roadside.