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"Now fly straight for a few minutes. Your right wing is low bring it up. Your nose is too high. Now it is too low. Keep it so that the radiator cap is above the horizon. That's right." So goes the business of instruction through the lessons on straight flying, gentle turns, misuse of controls, side-slipping, and approach, take-off, and landing.
With fifteen hours of solo flying the pupil has really become a pilot. He is beginning to show that he can control his machine. From then on it is a question of the polishing of the nice points, making his forced landings perfect, not side-slipping a foot on his vertical banks, and coming out of spin so that he always faces the airdrome all of which distinguish the good pilot from the poor pilot.
Though it ain't the same thing out here." Going in search of Christmas, I passed through a flooded countryside and found only scenes of war behind the lines, with gunners driving their batteries and limber down a road that had become a river-bed, fountains of spray rising about their mules and wheels, military motor-cars lurching in the mud beyond the pave, despatch-riders side-slipping in a wild way through boggy tracks, supply columns churning up deep ruts.
Oh, yes, that's Parker-Smith. H'm!" "What's wrong?" "Where's Tam I hope those beggars didn't catch him There he is, the devil!" Tam was doing stunts. He was side-slipping, nose-diving and looping he was, in fine, setting up all those stresses which a machine under extraordinary circumstances might have to endure. "He always does that with a new machine, sir," said Captain Blackie's companion.
A wet night, a greasy road, and a side-slipping motor-bike provided the means of an introduction between Second Lieutenant Courtenay of the 1st Footsloggers and Sergeant Willard K. Rawbon of the Mechanical Transport branch of the A.S.C. The Mechanical Transport as a rule extend a bland contempt to motor-cycles running on the road, ignoring all their frantic toots of entreaty for room to pass, and leaving them to scrape as best they may along the narrow margin between a deep and muddy ditch and the undeviating wheels of a Juggernaut Mechanical Transport lorry.
The world swings furiously, and down below that left wing-tip a little farm sways gently. "Now you are in a gentle turn feel that breeze on your cheek? We are side-slipping; give her a touch more of left rudder. Not so much. Now your nose is dropping; pull back on the stick. Back! Not forward! Back! Now your nose is too high; take us out, and don't forget that opposite stick and rudder.
Hard snow is of two types a beaten track or a hard crust where the sun has melted the surface and the frost at night has frozen it, so that it will bear the weight of the Ski-runner. When this is really solid enough to allow of side-slipping and stem, or Christiania turns, it is very trustworthy and easy to negotiate. At first, however, it intimidates the beginner, because it is very fast.
A speedy Boche trio which had apparently not before seen the Americans suddenly dived from a good height and the fight began all over again. In the melee of looping, side-slipping and nose-diving that ensued Bob got his big triplane headed for home and started off at high speed.
Indeed, it was actually side-slipping, and a terrible disaster appeared imminent. For hundreds of feet the young pilot, still hanging head downwards, was crashing to Earth, but when down to about 1200 feet from the ground the machine gradually came round, and Mr. Temple descended safely to Earth.
Chester, looking down, saw that the flashes of the guns off to the side had come halfway to him; if the falling plane caught itself again after the same amount of drop, side-slipping, it would hover not too far from the ground before going "off the wing" again. That is, it might.
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