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Updated: June 6, 2025
"I had planned, on the last day of the show, to make an ascent as high as one reservoir of gas would take me and that means so high that you couldn't see me and then make a volplane back to the ground without using the engine." "Are you going to try that?" demanded his father sternly. The boy looked at him and laughed. "Probably not now," he remarked, "although the show'd be over then."
"I believe he did read some account of us that got into the papers, and was sent up here to look us up. He was kind enough to compliment Frank on the way he made that corkscrew climb; and also on his volplane drop; said we had both of them down pretty fine; and he did hint at our having a chance to go in with his company; but of course we couldn't think of that.
A German craft was coming down, but in such fashion that showed it was in volplane control, at least. Swiftly it came down, headed for a field not far from the woods, in the edge of which were the five Brothers. Swiftly as falls a bird with a broken wing, down came the German aëroplane.
He dashed toward the reserve storeroom, and at that moment, with a suddenness that was startling, the motor stopped and the Falcon lurched toward the earth. "All right!" yelled Ned, as soon as he heard Tom's cry. "I've got her under control. We'll volplane down." "Is it dangerous? Are we in danger?" asked Peter Petrofsky of his brother, in Russian.
When they had mounted to a considerable height, Alfred shut off the engines and allowed her to volplane toward the sea. "Aw, let's give it up and get back," said Vincent downheartedly. "It's not here. Probably that old map-maker made a mistake of a trifling hundred miles or so." "That's a grand idea!" exclaimed Brightwood, grasping at a straw.
They'll have to volplane to earth, but, if they know anything at all about airships, they can do that easily, and not get a bit hurt. That will put them out of the race, and I can keep on after the big ship. I fancy that carries the more valuable cargo." "I presume so.
There were only a few drops left, besides those even then being vaporized in the carburetor. With despair in his heart, Tom looked back. If the Hun plane chose to rush him now all would be over with him and Jack. He had only enough fuel for another thousand meters or so, and then he must volplane.
On the other hand, the French monoplane, of which the Bleriot is the best known example, has wings with well rounded extremities, and flaring tail, so that the two can be readily distinguished. On one occasion, during the lull in the battle, two of the Taubes approached the area above the French lines, and after ascending to a great height, began the volplane toward their own lines.
The controls worked perfectly, and Joe felt increasingly at his ease. When he had made the first circuit he decided to continue, rise to a somewhat greater height, and come down with a nice, simple volplane at the feet of his fellows. All continued to go well. Nothing was necessary but to watch that no sudden gust caught the plane and found its pilot unprepared.
I remember following with intense interest the description given by my companion of how these birds with magnificent snowy plumage would come flying in over the dark forest high in air and then volplane to the little pond where, in the heavily massed bushes, their nests were thickly clustered.
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