What is "tailpipes"

Usage examples of "tailpipes".

Instead of a plenum chamber and fairings to cool the exhaust, the tailpipes were arranged above a fairing that might shield the worst of the heat signature from a ground observer.

The white-hot focused flames poured from the tailpipes for about a second, then went out, leaving everyone on deck half-blinded.

The engine backfired again, then again, from the buildup of back pressure as the tailpipes became blocked by the quicksand.

Only a nearly invisible vibration in the motor and wisps of exhaust from the camou-colored tailpipes showed the bike was running.

It took a moment for him to sort out what he was seeing, the twin tailpipes of another Tomcat flying just above the Russian bomber's cockpit.

From behind the Fantan formation, their tailpipes made perfect heat-seeker targets.

The heat spewing out of the smaller fighter's tailpipes would draw the missile in as inevitably as a tidal wave, unless it- "Damn it--he's got the flares.

The Tomcat accelerated rapidly, afterburners spitting unholy fire out the tailpipes, speed over ground decreasing to almost zero.

The low noise level was a direct by-product of burying the exhaust nozzles and tailpipes in the fuselage, shielded from the underside, to reduce the plane's infrared signature.