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Definition of Downdrafts
1. downdraft [n] - See also: downdraft
Lexicographical Neighbors of Downdrafts
Literary usage of Downdrafts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Basic Helicopter Handbook by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"proach may be used when barriers or excessive downdrafts exist. A shallower-than-normal
approach may be used when there are no barriers or downdrafts and ..."
2. Aviation Safety: FAA Can Better Prepare General Aviation Pilots for Mountain by Allen Li, Maryann Kruslicky, Timothy F. Hannegan (1998)
"In Tips on Mountain Flying, FAA estimates that mountain downdrafts can reach
an "unbelievable velocity" of thousands of feet per second. ..."
3. Multi-Language Glossary on Natural Disasters edited by Kenzo Toki (1994)
"However, exhausting air from a tighter house might increase the amount the furnace
downdrafts and the influx of radon. Using a furnace that draws combustion ..."
4. The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine (1875)
"They had used up their strength by wickedness, and were of next to no service,
but rather downdrafts and unbearable drags to progress. ..."
5. Selected Proceedings of the Sheffield Symposium on Applied Probability by Ishwar V. Basawa, Robert Lee Taylor (1991)
"He describes the resulting interplay between downdrafts and updrafts that appear
to serve the propagation of the system. On the other hand, Zawadski (1973) ..."
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