Word: glide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...future Luftwaffe pilots learned to fly in engineless craft. In the process, they perfected soaring techniques and wing designs that have influenced sailplaning all over the world. Today's sailplanes look and act like birds: slim of fuselage, with wings so disproportionately long that the best craft have glide ratios of 40 to 1, or 40 miles of reach for each mile of altitude. World sailplane distance record: 535 miles...
...began, he had added Pirandello to his list of influences: this act, as A Man's a Man shows, finally gave him the skills to shatter completely the culinary arts. The audience is now at arm's length, and the actors can themselves glide from impersonations, now assuming a new role (as Galy Gay, the soldiers' victim, is made to). then to be suddenly exposed (as is the soldiers' ruse, a fake elephant named Billy Hamph...
...Ladder was for the most part a deliberately unmelodic complex of unexpected sounds, unsustained notes, a text rhythmically spoken rather than sung. The most moving moment occurred during the soprano's heavenly ascent, in which the soul and a choir of angels seemed to wheel and glide about the hall as tapes were fed to the widely spaced speakers...
...present X-15 into orbit. Long before the Russians get a true plane into space, the U.S. might have the X-15 circling the world. Once in orbit, the swift little rocketship could maneuver freely, change direction and altitude, cross and recross the same cities, and glide down to land on conventional airports...
...ribs of the little reptile, says Dr. Colbert, supported a fixed wing 10 inches from tip to tip. This enabled the creature to glide like a modern flying squirrel, but not to fly actively. Presumably its way of life was to climb trees and launch itself into gliding flight when it wanted to move to another tree or when danger threatened. On one of these glides it must have landed in the lake where its flesh was eaten by fish and its sunken skeleton was covered slowly with silt...