Word: dive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Flight's the Thing. More than 100 falconers (a generic term applied to all those who hunt with birds) from Germany, France, Belgium, Holland and Great Britain had entered the trials. They brought birds of half a dozen varieties, ranging from peregrines, which dive at pheasant and pigeons at speeds as high as 200 m.p.h., to a somewhat elderly eagle, especially trained (for Hermann Goring) as a fox killer...
Mill St. runs between Lowell and Winthrop Houses; Holyoke St. is in front of the Indoor Athletic Building; and Riverside Drive runs parallel to Memorial Dive from Winthrop to Leverett House...
...When the attacking party reached the target area, the AD hung back out of flak range, sent the robot on in. The Hellcat's camera and the AD's TV screen picked up the bridge. The control man in the AD put the robot into a screaming dive, kept his aiming crosshairs on the bridge as he watched it grow bigger & bigger on his TV screen. When the screen went blank, the control man knew that the robot and its camera, the bomb and the bridge had all blown up together...
...confused with the explosive bang made by a jet pulling out of a supersonic dive. This is caused by a shock wave which is intensified during the turn and then detaches itself from the wing and slams down to the ground...
...modern military airplane carries a frightening passenger. The name is G.* During steady, level flights, G keeps still as a mouse, but when the plane makes a turn or pulls out of a dive, G takes charge. Every part of the pilot's body grows unnaturally heavy. His cheeks sag; his jaw drops open; the blood rushes out of his brain; his guts crowd into his belly. Too many Gs can black a man out, cripple him or even kill him. Air battles of the future, fought above the speed of sound, will be won by pilots equipped...