How to Use airfoil in a Sentence

airfoil

noun

• The shape of the airfoil is the key to noise generation here.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 11 Mar. 2022
• The horizontal airfoil surface of the tail group is about the size of the wing of a small bomber.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2021
• What dominates the room, though, is a big, red ceiling fan, 14 feet wide with airfoil tips.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 23 Nov. 2019
• The rear end flies a tall biplane setup with a large wing perched above a second smaller airfoil.
  — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 7 Feb. 2022
• How wind moves a boat: A sail full of wind forms an airfoil and propels the boat with lift, the way a plane’s wing does (except across water, rather than into the air).
  — Caleb Paine, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2021
• How Wind Moves a Boat A sail full of wind forms an airfoil and propels the boat with lift, the way a plane’s wing does (except across water, rather than into the air).
  — Popular Mechanics, 18 May 2018
• While the wing's orientation is important, the airfoil design, or the shape of the wing's profile viewed from the side-on, might be even more so.
  — Walter J. Boyne and Alex Hollings, Popular Mechanics, 23 May 2021
• The largest hurdle in the progression of VAWT designs is the lack of a proper airfoil shape and troubles with the braking systems, which drive unit costs up.
  — Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 20 May 2021
• On either side of the body, hanging off the wing, was a series of the wire/airfoil ionizers (two rows from front to back, both in a column of four for a total of eight).
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 21 Nov. 2018
• The curved rim on a Frisbee acts as an airfoil, which generates lift almost like an airplane wing.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Aug. 2021
• The airfoil — that web of fabric between the legs of a wing-suited birdman — sometimes provides lift but mostly delays the fall.
  — James McCommons, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2015
• The motor directly drives the fan’s airfoils (1) (commonly known as fan blades).
  — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 26 Feb. 2018
• In the bowing airfoil shape, air moving over the longer, curved side moves faster than air flowing by the other side, generating lift.
  — Caleb Paine, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2021
• In the bowing airfoil shape, air moving over the longer, curved side moves faster than air flowing by the other side, generating lift.
  — Popular Mechanics, 18 May 2018
• The above image shows the computational grid, rendered as blue lines, as well as the airfoil and the flow solution, showing how the grid adapts itself to the flow.
  — Lee Phillips, Ars Technica, 10 Oct. 2018
• Trailing behind that is a thin airfoil covered by the second electrode.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 21 Nov. 2018
• My Q50 Sport had a more angular front bumper and wider, lower air intakes, and a more prominent airfoil below the front bumper.
  — Emma Jayne Williams, star-telegram, 20 Jan. 2018
• The curved shape of an airplane wing—called an airfoil—alters the air pressure on either side of it and ultimately produces lift.
  — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2020
• The airfoil design generates lift across the entire fuselage rather than just the wings—meaning more power goes further—and reduces drag.
  — Eric Adams, Wired, 16 Feb. 2020
• Other cases, like the airfoils that sweep back to a vee and carry our fighter jets to supersonic speeds, could only have come from trial-and-error arms races.
  — Nick Stockton, WIRED, 22 July 2014
• Pratt is set to open a casting foundry and airfoil production facility in Asheville, North Carolina.
  — Stephen Singer, courant.com, 30 Mar. 2022
• Many airfoil designs include baffles that inflate the fabric to increase the glide ratio — the forward motion relative to the loss in altitude.
  — James McCommons, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2015
• Would there be any significant advantages to making the wing into a more complex shape, for example with an airfoil cross-section instead of a flat plate?
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Mar. 2023
• Erickson engineers based this design partly on a late 1990s rotor-airfoil NASA study.
  — Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2020
• At speed, these buttresses also act like airfoils, generating a bit of downforce while also looking like hell’s kitchen drawer.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 6 July 2017
• Lincoln Design Director David Woodhouse points to the converging roof and rocker lines that create an airfoil-like shape, while the bold front end and tapered greenhouse echoes historic aircraft design.
  — Gary Gastelu, Fox News, 28 Mar. 2018
• The main rotor remains a 72-foot diameter, six-blade disc, but the blades are made from a carbon-fiber composite construction, each comprised of four discreet airfoils blended together.
  — Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2020
• Kwak: Making a well-streamlined airfoil (instead of a flat plate) is actually our next goal to achieve more efficient aerodynamic properties, such as lower drag and higher lift.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Mar. 2023
• Pratt & Whitney, which is a division of Raytheon Technologies Corp., plans to construct a 1 million-square-foot, high-tech turbine airfoil production facility.
  — Nyamekye Daniel, Washington Examiner, 23 Oct. 2020
• The aircraft design uses Honda's over-the-wing engine mount, developed on the original HondaJet, as well as a composite fuselage and natural laminar flow airfoil.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 30 May 2018

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024