Word: fishtailed
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...down speed and range, the Navy plans to fly the Akron's brood without gear in time of war. When operating on the high seas, both wheels and pontoons would be equally useless in a forced water landing. Unless they can reach a friendly shore and make a fishtail landing, pilots unable to return to Mother Akron will be counted as lost...
...into the thick low wing. Lieut. Quesada picked up the speaking-tube. Try a landing on the hard runway? Climb higher and bail out? Secretary Davison looked overside, then answered: "Neither. . . . Try Mitchel. It's softer there." At Mitchel Field a few miles away Lieut. Quesada made a "fishtail" landing at 70 m.p.h. without hurting his chief or himself...
Yale won the shooting march by a score of 103 to 99. The birds were Keystones, to which the Harvard men were unaccustomed, and the weather was rainy with "fishtail" winds. Each man shot six rounds of five birds each, and the score by rounds was as follows...