Word: glider
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...dive is spinproof (accidental spins can whirl or tumble the body up to three times a second, black out the jumper) and keeps the diver on his belly, so his backpack chute can open without fouling. In addition, the sky diver becomes a sort of low-efficiency glider. By moving his arms and legs, he can change position in flight. even pull off a figure eight by use of hands and arms before cracking his chute and drifting to earth under its canopy...
...devoted to music long since committed to his, and most listeners', memory, Von Karajan has also found leisure to become an avid sportsman, often slips off for a week of skiing in the Alps or an afternoon's spin in a rented light plane or a glider. In all these pastimes, as in music, he luxuriates in what he calls "harmony of movement"-the remarkable performance that is given without apparent effort. He has also had time to indulge a broad streak of vanity that extends from his brown suede shoes to the set of his ample brown...
...Patiently he tacked back and forth, working his way upward, riding air currents as buoyantly as a beach boy on a surfboard. Once over the crest, he slid easily downward to the French naval airfield at Hyères, just eleven miles east of Toulon. No other glider got close...
...Wrights' pioneer airplane," says Dr. Lippisch, "was a glider and an auto engine and a windmill. Airplanes are still powered gliders." Working with gliders, delta wings and rocket planes, he has long dreamed of an aircraft that would fly without supporting wings. "Wings are for the birds," he says. "They heat up, and they increase drag. In supersonic flight they create sound and shock waves. Energy is lost. For economy, you have to have an internal flow process. You can reflect and extinguish these shock waves on the opposite walls of the channel that you put them through...
...farmers would think of. From surplus Marine Corps bread-baking pans, they made racks for tools, nuts and bolts. From rolled steel sheets, they produced automatic watering troughs, and from big scrap oil pipes, they turned out portable cattle shelters. The boys have made everything from children's glider swings to an 18-ft. "tillpack" to break up clods of earth before planting. For seven years straight, they have won 90% of the mechanics' prize money at the Kern County Fair...