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"I'm sure there is no danger," said Chester. "We're just sinking gently." He cut off the engine and allowed the craft to volplane to earth more abruptly. It came to rest on the ground as lightly as a bird. "Well, what will we do now?" demanded Ivan. "You have as much idea as I have," returned Chester. "I can't fix this thing here in the darkness; in fact, I don't know whether I can fix it at all.
And then, just as Tom shut off his own motor and let the Hawk glide on her downward way in a volplane to earth, the great, ponderous tank came to a stop, on the very edge of the precipice at the foot of which rolled the river. "Whew!" whistled Ned, as the aircraft rolled along the ground near the war machine. "That was touch and go, Tom! They stopped her just in time."
"And the Presido Park is in sight!" yelled Paul, pointing to a big field, now black with people, for the coming of Dick had been flashed all over San Francisco and Oakland. "We can never make it," the young millionaire murmured. "We'll have to volplane down, but we can't reach the park. Oh, for a gallon of gasolene! One gallon would do!" "What's that!" cried Uncle Ezra, coming from his bunk room.
"We're falling fast." "Throw her nose up," cried Dick. "That's what we've got to do to save ourselves. We'll volplane down, and maybe we can keep up long enough to have Mr. Vardon put in new wires in place of the burned-out ones. If he can do that, and if we can start the motor " "It sounds too good to be true," said Innis. "But get in here, Dick, and see what you can do.
"It would be magnificent were it not so terrible." He was thinking of the gasoline in their tank and he shuddered. Would it last until the storm had passed, or would they be obliged to volplane down into that seething tempest? He put his lips to the tube. "You better use just enough gas to keep us afloat," he suggested. Alfred muttered something like, "Think I'm a fool?"
Dave turned the head of the machine on a volplane sweep, and the searchlight operator could not locate it again. "Well, we've been seen," observed Hiram, "I'm sorry for it," replied Dave simply. "Look there!" cried Hiram abruptly. Dave had selected a course leading over the land, away from the water. As Hiram spoke, his own eye caught sight of some brilliant sparkles of light.
Strathdene knew how to dodge and duck, turn somersaults, volplane, spiral, coast downward on an invisible toboggan-slide, or climb into heaven on an airy stair. The sky was full of such flocks; the gallant American gentlemen who made up the Escadrille Lafayette went clouding with him, and Mr. Robert Lorraine, the excellent actor, and Mr.
That's the principle on which an aeroplane rises and keeps aloft, by its speed in the air. As soon as that speed stops it begins to fall, or volplane, as we call it." "Exactly. Now, instead of having to depend on the speed of the aeroplane for this, why not depend on the speed of the propeller in other words, the whizzer?"
Gabriel, realizing that some chance still existed to save his life, wrenched madly at his levers. "If I can volplane down!" he panted, sick and dizzy, "there may yet be hope!" Hope! Yes, but how tenuous! What chance had he, coasting to earth at that low level, to avoid the detonating bombs, the aerial shrapnel being hurled aloft, the poisonous gas, the surface-fire?
"I'll have to volplane down. Sit tight, there's no danger!" Mr. Damon knew that with so competent a pilot as Tom Swift in the forward seat this was true, but, nevertheless, he was a bit nervous until he felt the smooth, gliding motion, with now and then an upward tilt, which showed that Tom was coming down from the upper regions in a series of long glides.
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