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The flying speed varies with the type of machine, and it may be estimated that most machines take-off and land at a speed of from forty-five to sixty miles an hour. The air must be passing through their planes at this speed before they will begin to fly, and it takes a little run to get up flying speed. Similarly, when an airplane lands, it must lose its flying speed gradually.
Like a quarter barrel-hoop.... I guess it would be better to try to make a Chanute glider just a plain pair of sup'rimposed planes, instead of one all combobulated like a bat's wings, like Lilienthal's glider was.... Or we could try some experiments with paper models Oh no! Thunder! Let's make a glider." They did.
The Cordilleras majestic, white capped, impressive, are, nevertheless, veritable hogs. They drink up all the moisture and corral all the winds from this small strip which lies at their feet. Scarcely once in a year do they spare a drop of rain for these lower planes. And so within sight of their white summits lies this stretch of utter desolation.
The cyclic impulse had been working mainly on spiritual and intellectual planes: Ssema Tsien, the Father of Chinese History, gives gloomy pictures of things economic.* "When the House of Han arose," says Ssema, "the evils of their predecessors had not passed away.
It's plenty different on this job! We can't even talk to a girl without security clearance for an interview beforehand, and we can't speak to strange men or go out alone after dark ." The pilot grunted. The co-pilot's tone changed. "Not quite that bad," he admitted, "but it's bad! It's really bad! We lost three planes last week. I guess you'd call it in action against saboteurs.
It exists, as all drawing does, by light and shade, but the shadows are not produced by the mere darkening of the surface they are produced by projections and recessions, by the inclination of the planes away from or toward the light.
We'll have to depend on the French and English for them, as we have to, at first, for our artillery and shells." "We can fly French or British planes," remarked Tom. And, as my old readers know, the air service boys had had experience with a number of different models. "We can fly a Gotha if we have to," said Jack.
Gradually the motor-car firms came in, turning their body-building departments to plane and fuselage construction, which enabled them to turn out the complete planes engined and ready for the field.
That is how I met Colonel M , who is England's greatest airship man and who is in charge of the naval air station. "If you had come a little sooner," he said, "you could have gone out with us." I was grateful but unenthusiastic. I had seen the officers watching the sky for German planes.
Up beyond fifty-five thousand he hoped to attain a thousand miles an hour velocity. That meant, say, breakfast in New York, lunch in London, tea in Novo-Sibirsk, dinner in Yokohama as soon as the myriad planes which would follow this one in design and capabilities took off on the trail Kress was blazing. Jeter sighed at the thought.
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