Word: earthwards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mouth. But when the dragon-headed planes are off the ground, and fighting, Flying Tigers is a good show to see. For the combat sequences, salted with some extraordinary shots made in Burma, are always loud, swift, exciting. At moments, as in the sudden, braided smoke spirals of two earthward hurtling planes, they are superb...
...bomb arched earthward in a wide parabola. Twenty-six seconds passed. At last the men in the tower saw it strike the target, saw a puny, firecracker flash of flame, followed by a pipe-smoker's puff of smoke. An instant later came hell. The ground erupted like a volcano. A halo of yellow flame flared from the spot. Even from a mile away it was blinding. Black smoke, blasted wood, little trees poured upward for a hundred feet, like a Niagara running backward...
...skip in short waves (they travel in a series of bounces, hundreds of miles long, between the earth and an ionized upper stratum of atmosphere) to make Midwesterners wonder whether they harbored a disloyal station. "Station D-E-B-U-N-K," when picked up around Chicago on the earthward bounce, was heard referring to European stations as "over there" and urging folks to "fight the dictatorship . . . in Washington." FCC triangulations located it in western Europe...
Starnes had jumped before-more than 300 times. But, until last week, he had still not answered a vexing question: What happens to a flyer's heart, lungs and circulatory system when he plunges earthward from a disabled airplane at high altitude and falls free as long as he dares, 1) to escape the enemy, 2) to get into warm, breathable air? The Army and many a scientist wanted to know the answer...
...sunspots poured streams of subatomic electrical particles earthward. Striking the upper levels of the earth's atmosphere, they excited oxygen and nitrogen atoms into luminescence, also set off a magnetic storm. Some consequences...