Word: glide
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...Channel Glide...
Next, although the Deutschland was where she was, President von Hindenburg produced and read his christening address. "And now glide down into your element and join the ocean!" read HINDENBURG, a hero so great that no one snickered. "Do your duty there! May it be to give proof of German work and German efficiency and to protect the Fatherland. Always keep your flag clean and high in honor! Then you will be worthy of the name which I give you-Deutschland...
...Malaya, a black snake with a yellow dot in the centre of each scale and a series of yellow, red centred "flowers" along the back. These snakes climb trees, fling themselves off and by extending their ribs and sucking in their bellies, create air pockets on which they glide safely to the ground...
...insisted in landing downwind. For more than a half hour, according to his log record, the pilot has attempted to land his ship after he noticed his engine was not functioning properly. He tried to land in three different fields, and failing each time, attempted to stretch his glide on the third try into a fourth field. In each instance the young pilot was landing "downwind" which was just the opposite from what he had been taught...
...above a 90-ft. layer of fog and one-half mile from the field. A plane was fitted with a trailing weight suspended by a few feet of wire. Approaching the hidden field, the pilot oriented himself by the known position of the balloon, put his ship into a glide of prescribed angle, leveled off when a red light on his instrument board told him the suspended weight had touched ground...