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  • They left big hollows wherever they found air-bearing rock or ice pockets.

    Crashlander Niven, Larry 1994

  • The arm sealed it and moved it to a door, then Fromm removed it from the machine enclosure and walked over to the air-bearing lathe.

    The Sum of all Fears Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1991

  • During the test, a fully operational, flight-weight kinetic warhead operated on an air-bearing test stand and performed in a high-altitude chamber at Aerojet's

    unknown title 2011

  • This updated vehicle will rely on air-bearing turbochargers to create mechanical energy, where the former runs on cold compressed air with the powerplant using "super-capacitors, earth friendly recyclable batteries, solar power, magnetic motors and magnetic generators to compress entrained ambient air."

    Ubergizmo 2009

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