Crossword-Solution: UPDRAFT 7 letters, 16 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

First there is a geyser of blue flame as the tank's puncture wound jets a stream of ignited assoline skyward, and then it blows back into the tank and *boom*, the fartmobile is in one billion shards, rising like a parachute in an updraft.

PROLOGUE On Satan's Footstool The big armor-tender vibrated, gently and not unpleasantly, as the contragravity field alternated on and off, occasionally varying its normal rate of five hundred to the second when some thermal updraft lifted the vehicle and the automatic radar-altimeter control acted to alter the frequency and lower it again.

Snapping down the faceplate of his parka hood, he ran through the protective updraft of the air curtain and charged into the deadly chill of the Antarctic blizzard.

And no patch of blue sky ever looked so good as that sky above the mountain, swept clean of the rain curtain by the updraft.

After the Seattle incident she climbed to a great altitude above the Rockies, apparently using an updraft with very little wing-motion.