wing-beat

Since you discussed the way the flight is accomplished I guess my question is...with the crowd around will we see the effects of the wing-beat drafts on the surroundings?

Utopiales Poster, Part 2 James Gurney 2009

Not only can the laser target a mosquito, it can also tell a male from a female based on wing-beat.

Rocket Scientists Shoot Down Mosquitoes With Lasers 2009

Approaching gobblers will typically confront the jake first, face-to-face, intending to wing-beat and spur the competition into submission before moving on to the ladies.

The Field Fakeout 2005

But a big hawk, now-he can glide quite a bit, and when he does take a wing-beat, it's slower because his wings are larger.

Elvenblood Lackey, Mercedes 1995

Alara followed the faint scent of dragon in the thin, cold air, putting all of her strength into each wing-beat as she sent herself higher and higher into the mountains on the western edge of the Kin's territory.

The Elvenbane Lackey, Mercedes 1991

And with every wing-beat, he wanted to sing along with the melodies of well-constructed magery, caroling with joy.

The Elvenbane Lackey, Mercedes 1991

-- When two souls come together, each seeking to magnify the other, each in subordinate sense worshiping the other, each help the other; the two flying together so that each wing-beat of the one helps each wing-beat of the other -- when two souls come together thus, they are lovers.

Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis

-- When two souls come together, each seeking to magnify the other, each in subordinate sense worshiping the other, each help the other; the two flying together so that each wing-beat of the one helps each wing-beat of the other -- when two souls come together thus, they are lovers.

Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage B.G. Jefferis

She told me that Swallows had to fly one wing-beat at a time, and that dinners had to be eaten one mouthful at a time, and that nothing really worth while could be done in a minute.

Among the Farmyard People Clara Dillingham Pierson

There was sudden movement - the ring of whipped-out metal - a bird's wing-beat - as fifteen hundred hilts rose all together to as many lips

Rung Ho Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1914