Airstream vs. Slipstream — What's the Difference?

Airstream is an American brand of caravan ("travel trailer" in American English) easily recognized by the distinctive shape of its rounded and polished aluminum coachwork. This body shape dates back to the 1930s and is based on the Bowlus Road Chief, an earlier all-aluminum travel trailer designed and built by Hawley Bowlus, the same designer and engineer who also oversaw the construction of the Spirit of St.

A slipstream is a region behind a moving object in which a wake of fluid (typically air or water) is moving at velocities comparable to that of the moving object, relative to the ambient fluid through which the object is moving. The term slipstream also applies to the similar region adjacent to an object with a fluid moving around it.

A flow or current of air.

The turbulent flow of air driven backward by the propeller or propellers of an aircraft. Also called race2.

The flow of air around an object.

The area of reduced pressure or forward suction produced by and immediately behind a fast-moving object as it moves through air or water.

A relatively well-defined prevailing wind.

To drive or cycle in the slipstream of a vehicle ahead.

The flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller.

The low-pressure zone immediately following a rapidly moving object, caused by turbulence.

A relatively well-defined prevailing wind

A generated advantage which makes forward movement easier.

The flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller

A genre of fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries.

To take advantage of the suction produced by a slipstream by travelling immediately behind the slipstream generator.

To incorporate additional software (such as patches) into an existing installer.

The flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller