puff pipe
English
Noun
puff pipe (plural puff pipes)
- (aviation) A pipe on a VTOL aircraft that expels compressed air in order to stabilize the craft.
- 1966, Sung-ming Wang, VTOL vehicles: practice and potential (page 72)
- Basically, the Bedstead proved that stabilizing a jet-borne aircraft by means of "puff pipes" was practical and that not only was auto-stabilizing possible but that, with training, manual stabilizing could also be achieved.
- 1966, Sung-ming Wang, VTOL vehicles: practice and potential (page 72)