Word: earthwards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peaslee's ship reached home peppered with rocket fragments. Sixty other Forts had plunged earthward...
...Vertical Approach. At Dunnellon Field, one of the bases in AAFSAT's 15,500-sq.-mi. domain, visiting newsmen gawked at three Mustang fighter-bombers circling almost soundlessly at 8,000 feet. One by one they peeled off, grew in size and sound as they hurtled earthward...
...feet bombs blossomed from their racks, plummeted earthward, plunked into a 100-foot target circle with bright flashes, belches of flame and smoke. It was nice shooting. But the center of the target, a cloth-covered frame, still stood...
...wooded mountaintop). It could also be used for rescuing injured men from plane crashes in inaccessible places, might also be handy for artillery spotting. With floats it can land and take off either from water or land. If its engine fails, the helicopter can land without power, unwinding earthward at leisurely speed. It can travel through murky weather at low speed, stop, back up or go sideways when it comes up to trees or buildings. It is easy to fly and, except for the danger of collisions in the air, close to foolproof...
...come back toward the transport at an angle. Suddenly "they looked like one plane, they were so close." Sky-watching citizens in Palm Springs thought they saw someone bail out in a parachute. But what they saw was the transport's tail assembly. Then the airliner screamed crazily earthward, careened into a mountainside. The wreckage burned for five hours; the three crew members and nine passengers, including Songwriter Ralph Rainger (Moanin' Low, Love in Bloom), were dead...