propwash

  If the U.S. Air Force had any of their air patrols running over San Francisco today, then an alert and knowledgeable observer in one of them might have noticed the length of the propwash theJahre Vikingwas pushing.

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Their actual function is nozzles—sort of like streamlines your propwash or something so you get more pushing power.

The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007

Their actual function is nozzles—sort of like streamlines your propwash or something so you get more pushing power.

The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007

It was at treetop level now, its propwash causing twigs and clumps of wet snow to rain down upon them; the noise of its rotors was deafening.

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Found a great setting using the ring modulator in the delay loop: gets this mechanical echo vaguely like a fading helicopter propwash.

brunch in the boonies, delay-ringmod, decking the great hall badger 2002

The jump is quick, but it gets damn cold standing alongside the plane in the propwash.

grouse Diary Entry grouse 2001

Midair collisions always seemed seconds away as she learned to edge her wing tip closer and closer to another bomber, riding out the bumpy air of its propwash until she finally reached the smooth currents where the wings broke the air together.

Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984

They were blasted by the propwash, dust swirling around them in eye-stinging clouds.

Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984

Midair collisions always seemed seconds away as she learned to edge her wing tip closer and closer to another bomber, riding out the bumpy air of its propwash until she finally reached the smooth currents where the wings broke the air together.

Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984