Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sikorsky had come up from Santiago, making a land stop at Guayaquil (Ecuador), a water stop at Tumaco (Colombia), heading for its final land stop at Cristobal in the Canal Zone. Pilot Stephen Dunn, Wartime Navy flyer and six-year veteran on P.A.G. runs, approached the field through thick cloud and heavy rain, passed over the zone of silence extending straight up from the field's radio beacon, radioed that he was backtracking to make a landing. It seemed most likely that while he was spiraling down, the sea loomed up at him too suddenly through the murk...
...from Amsterdam to Paris. Some witnesses thought the motors sounded queer. On board were a crew of three and twelve passengers, including Benjamin F. Mun of Long Beach, Calif., president of Humber Oil Co. Near the village of Lembecq-lez-Hal the airliner bored into a mass of dark cloud, was seen few minutes later pitching steeply to earth with flame enveloping the left wing. The plane struck so hard that the motors and half the fuselage disappeared into the ground. All on board were killed. KLM officials, but few other aeronautical experts, thought that lightning might have ignited...
...million feet of gas will make coming out of 2" tubing; and just how damn slick a rig floor can get after the first few barrels of Big Injun crude has squirted up and hit the crown pulley and is now raining down through the rig like an April cloud burst. . . . JIM VANDERGRIFT...
Thunderheads are cumulus clouds which mark the top of a rising column of air. The expansion and cooling of the air as it rises condenses atmospheric moisture, forms the cloud. The air in and around thunderheads is often gusty enough to toss a glider around like a canoe in heavy surf. The top of the cloud is charged with negative electricity, the bottom with positive. When this difference of potential becomes high enough a stroke of lightning cancels it. A direct hit by lightning has never been definitely shown to be the cause of an airplane wreck, but there...
...Science last week appeared a report announcing discovery and classification of a great stream of galaxies, the greatest of metagalactic clouds. It is 50,000,000 light-years long, 20,000,000 wide. Discovered on plates taken at Harvard's Southern Hemisphere station in South Africa, it lies athwart the sky near the Fouth celestial pole. Fifteen thousand galaxies or "island universes" were counted in it, all of them below the 16th magnitude in brightness. At first the cloud was classed simply as a "major irregularity." But the savants at Cambridge reasoned that it must contain at least...