flexible skirt

At high speed, the truck bounced on its flexible skirts.

At the following race, the scrutineers rejected the flexible skirts.

She was able to watch the horizon while the driver's attention was focused just ahead of the flexible skirts.

The SR.N1 later had a flexible skirt added in 1961 which greatly improved the effective depth of the air cushion.

A crevice opened beneath a Pancahtan hovercraft, then slammed shut again to pinch the flexible skirt.

The hover-craft's flexible skirts dampened the quick choppy motions of the ground into longer-period motions.

Another similar real-world device is the hovercraft, which elevates itself above a water or level hard surface using a cushion of air retained by a flexible skirt.

These machines (and the HM2s) were catamarans with twin rigid hulls and flexible skirts fore and aft.

It looked remarkably like a Home Dimension machine, with propellers mounted on top to drive it and a flexible skirt containing the air cushion under it.

The lighter vehicle lifted on the gust fromFencing Master 's plenum chamber, surfing the bow wave and bouncing down the other side on its own flexible skirts.

Practical hovercraft use a peripheral skirt system, where the air from the lift fans is routed to a narrow slot around the edge of the hull, and bounded by a flexible skirt.

At this time, the design of the hovercraft was at an early stage, and when Ord-Hume suggested a flexible skirt system to retain the air cushion beneath the craft, Latimer-Needham engineered a patentable design.

Dust spurted from under the car as they swung behind the bunker, just now thrown up with farming machines and covered with raw dirt The driver backed and then let the vehicle settle on its flexible skirt, keep- ing the fens running and the gunner's line of sight just over the top of the mound.