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Then, switching off his engine so as to moderate the speed of his descent, and by such manipulations as may be necessary of his elevator, he pilots his craft to earth in a vol-plané, during which gravity takes the place of his motor, and he is able by steadying his machine and bringing it into a horizontal position just at the right moment to make a gentle contact with the ground.
"I'll shut off the motor, and vol-plane down." Suiting the action to the word, Tom shut off his power. The little craft dipped toward the ground, but the lad threw up the forward planes, and caught a current of air that sent him skimming along horizontally. As he got nearer to the ground, he saw the figure of a lad riding a bicycle along the country highway.
"That's right," he said. "I have. I was going to tell you about it. I saw him, fifteen days ago, in the North Sea." "Great Scott, did you really?" exclaimed Mac, and he picked up the copy of The Morning. "Look here!" Mr. Carville took the paper and read the news without exhibiting any emotion. I saw his eyelid flicker as he glanced down the special article by "Vol-Plane."
Only we had to vol-plane back to earth, and I can't say that I'd care for that, as a steady diet. Bless my radiator, but I'm glad we've arrived safely." "Did you come all the way from your home in that?" asked Mr. Fenwick of Tom, as he shook hands with him, and nodded at the monoplane. "Oh, yes. It's not much of a trip." "Well, I hope my airship will do as well.
Fenwick. "We will be drowned!" "No," and Tom spoke more quietly than before. "We are over a large island." he went on, "and I propose to let the disabled airship vol-plane down to it. That is our only chance." "Over an island!" cried Mr. Damon. He looked down through the floor observation window. Tom had spoken truly.
I reckoned that my petrol supply would not last for more than another hour or so, but I could afford to use it to the last drop, since a single magnificent vol-plane could at any time take me to the earth. "Suddenly I was aware of something new. The air in front of me had lost its crystal clearness.
Damon. "There's not much danger," replied the young inventor. "They can vol-plane back to earth. That's what they're doing," he added a moment later, as he witnessed the maneuver of the crippled craft. "They're in no danger, but I don't believe they'll get to the valley of gold this trip!" Tom was soon to learn how easily he could be mistaken.
"Is it always as easy as this?" "Starting always is," was the answer, "though, as the Irishman said, coming down isn't sometimes quite so comfortable." "Bless my gizzard! That's so," cried the eccentric Mr. Damon. "Can we vol-plane to earth in the Red Cloud, Tom?" "Yes, but not as easily as in the Butterfly. However I hope we will not have to. Now, Mr.
What the present rule means, in this respect, is that the pupil must be really proficient at making a vol-plané, without any aid at all from his engine, before he can hope to pass the test; and such a proved skill say in the making of his first cross-country flight, should his engine fail suddenly may spell the difference between a safe or a dangerous landing.
Kipling's racy colloquial style and contained numerous references to the Empire, the White Man's Burden and our "far-flung battle line." I suspected that Monsieur D'Aubigné had supplied the basic "facts" which had been edited by Lord Cholme before being handed on to "Vol-Plane," as the biographer called himself. I set the paper down and resumed my cigar.
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