air-cushion

Dropping swiftly and piling up an abrupt air-cushion, the monoplane landed.

Winged Blackmail 2010

A man, reading a newspaper, had just started up at the sight of the returning pigeon, when be heard the burr of Winn's engine and saw the huge monoplane, with all surfaces set, drop down upon him, stop suddenly on an air-cushion manufactured on the spur of the moment by a shift of the horizontal rudders, glide a few yards, strike ground, and come to rest not a score of feet away from him.

Winged Blackmail 2010

In the police mortuary, displayed on an air-cushion in the stasis-freeze, the corpse was a mangled figure with dead white skin and a flaming red beard.

Wild Dreams of Reality, 5 2010

New weapons in the budget included an air-cushion amphibious landing craft and the Osprey, a $25 million-a-copy combination helicopter-plane the Marines apparently want but the Pentagon had been trying to kill for three years.

The Anatomy Of Pork 2008

De-miners wear plexiglass visors, kneepads and Kevlar vests for protection, while air-cushion shoes reduce risk of accidentally activating mines.

Buried Terror ..Auw-Stacy Sullivan In Sarajevo 2008

Sure, everyone uses the wheel, until someone invents the tractor tread, or the constant-width non-circular cam, or the air-cushion.

Tour de Force Walter Jon Williams 2007

Using extremely quiet dual-fans at the foot of the bed, cool air is pulled in from behind your head and circulated through the soft membrane which also acts as an air-cushion to support you.

Air-Conditioned Bed And Clothing | Impact Lab 2007

Using extremely quiet dual-fans at the foot of the bed, cool air is pulled in from behind your head and circulated through the soft membrane which also acts as an air-cushion to support you.

Sustainable Luxury Living : Aura at Camelback 2007

So firefighters inflated a rescue air-cushion just in case.

CNN Transcript Mar 3, 2005 2005

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We moved the rescue air-cushion out of the way, and then we started taping up the window, so before we break it, so when it starts to crack, it going to crack in bigger pieces.

CNN Transcript Mar 3, 2005 2005