Word: glide
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...fishes dart from the Mediterranean, spread their big fins, and shoot through the air 25 to 30 m.p.h. for as long as 13 seconds, just as Magellan watched them, just as U. S. holiday voyagers on cruises to Havana and Caribbean ports watch them. But do they fly or glide...
...freeflight tunnel is a cylinder which may be tilted at a normal airplane glide angle. On the bottom rests a small model of a commercial plane which is to be tested for such things as controllability. As the air rushes into the tunnel, the model takes off, flies completely free. Trailing from it is a thread-like copper wire through which the operator can control ailerons and rudders, see how the ship obeys them...
...profession of aviation, Boeing Aircraft Co. has had a particularly up & down career. Created by accident after a crash, it has climbed to some of the greatest heights, endured some of the dizziest falls of any concern in the business. Last week, true to form, after a long anxious glide Boeing was once more roaring upward with new gallons in the gas tank and prosperity at the joystick...
...tour, as the snow texture is liable to change unexpectedly at any time; thus if you have waxed for dry snow (mix and very smooth surface) and you run into wet snow, by rubbing a rough coating of paraffin over the other wax it will enable the skis to glide freely...
...long tour the snow at the starting point is fairly wet, but a few hundred feet above it is freezing. For this one can put on an original coating of medium," allow it to cool, and cover it with a very thin coating of "mix." The "mix" will glide well over the dry snow at the beginning of the run down, and will wear off soon after reaching the wet snow, then the under coating of medium will serve its purpose...