Word: bellyful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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New, steeper-pitched propellers have been mounted, air screws which will take a bigger bite of air, increase the Akron's speed to world's fastest. But more notable is the installation of apparatus in the ship's belly to permit the nesting of five tiny fighting...
Akron's Luck. Six members of a Congressional committee investigating charges of faulty construction in the U. S. S. Akron were about to board her for an inspection flight at Lakehurst when a terrific gust of wind whipped her tail free of the ground crew, bounced it against the...
And now at last snow flies in New England. Hulking pungs slide off quietly into the slashing behind the pump horse. The new town truck drones along the highway casting up furrows of white foam. With a sharp jar as the sled strikes ground, a cheerful gnome starts off belly...
We travel in the belly of the wind;
It is one thing to land a plane on its belly because you have deliberately dropped your landing gear, as did Herndon & Pangborn when they flew the Pacific. It is another and highly disconcerting thing to discover unexpectedly that you must land like that when your Big Boss is your...