Hard disk drives today continue to use self-acting air bearings.
The heads "flew" on self-acting hydrodynamic air bearings.
It was a forty-five-kilowatt natural gas-burning jet turbine generator, spinning on compressed air bearings and self-cooling from intake air.
Transfer chairs often use sliding sheets or inflatable sliding mats with air bearings to facilitate the movement of the patient from the bed to the chair.
The role of the air bearing is to maintain the flying height constant as the head moves over the surface of the disk.
The wheel rim will rotate on air bearings placed around the perimeter of a bearing block that also houses the slide which serves as the suspension system.
This disk is supported by air bearings generated by the rotating disk.
"And then, of course, there is the professional model with extra-high capacity, air bearings, a thousand MT power unit, and self-honing edges."
This extravagant design evidently takes its inspiration from the air bearings of the precision gyroscopes that guide spacecraft on their immense journeys.
Pneumatic systems where small changes in pressures must be eliminated, such as those controlling air bearings.