air pipe

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Lindbergh tinkers anxiously over a broken air pipe, minor mid-air accident to the hitherto uncannily flawless mechanism of The Spirit.

From Time Magazine Archive

He turned over on his side to look upward, but he could see nothing—only the vague blue twilight through which the slack coils of his severed air pipe came sagging.

From Where the Pavement Ends by Russell, John

This, and the compressed air pipe, are not shown in the diagram.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 633, February 18, 1888 by Various

So we find growing up in the walls of this air pipe, cells which turn themselves into rings of gristle, or cartilage.

From A Handbook of Health by Hutchinson, Woods

Air Pipe.—The diver’s air pipe is of a flexible, non-collapsible description, being made of alternate layers of strong canvas and vulcanized india-rubber, with steel or hard drawn metal wire embedded.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various