puff pipe

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puff pipe (plural puff pipes)

  1. (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.
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