Sentence examples for oncoming air from inspiring English sources

Number of fins, height of fins, spacing between two fins and oncoming air velocity are considered as the design variables.

The devices direct oncoming air around the trailer in such a way that it increases pressure in the area of the slipstream immediately behind the vehicle.

The upgrades: One of them is called the "angle of attack indicator" and displays the readings of the two sensors that determine whether the plane's nose is pointing up or down, relative to oncoming air.

The jet's software system takes readings from one of two vanelike devices called angle of attack sensors that determine how much the plane's nose is pointing up or down relative to oncoming air.

In those cases, the top of the ball effectively moved faster through the oncoming air than the bottom half did.

In some serves the balls moved with top spin, in which the top of the ball rotates toward the oncoming air and the bottom rotates away from it.

oncoming car in the same lane;   c.

You wouldn't walk into oncoming car traffic, right?

A car went out of control and flipped into the air and into oncoming traffic on the Henry Hudson Parkway late last night, injuring several people and temporarily closing the road in both directions, the authorities said.

The chill of oncoming dusk shivered through the air, and though the sky was still deep blue, lengthening shadows emanated from the garden's tall chrysanthemum stalks; Nancy's cat frolicked among them, catching its paws in the twine with which Kenyon and Mr. Helm were now tying plants.

She ran and I followed her, watching as she held her right hand in the air in the direction of the oncoming traffic.