Word: glides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rumbling" is a word unknown in U. S. aviation. Mr. Simmonds defined it as the practice of using a plane's engines to help it into an airport "instead of using proper skill and judgment in gliding to the desired point . . . without help from the engines." He viewed with alarm the danger of an engine cutting out while the pilot is rumbling in. Moreover, he contended that habitual reliance on engine power causes a pilot to lose his ability to make a forced landing "deadstick" if necessary. Oldtime pilots prefer not to rumble, Mr. Simmonds found; but operators insist...
...rotor to revolve backward. That action, combined with the forward movement, produces low pressure on top of the rotor, increased pressure (lift) on the bottom. If the motor should quit the rotor continues to spin in descent, the lift force stretching the plane's course into a long glide. Unconsciously Designer Hatlestad had employed the Savonius windmill principle.* His scheme is not to be confused with the Flettner rotor or recently publicized paddle-wing rotorplanes, both of which involve power-driven rotors...
...Glide of water, lights and the prore...
Last week at Newark Airport the Department of Commerce gave to air transport a device on which it had been at work for five years, to overcome the blind landing hazard. It consists of 1) a runway localizing beacon and 2) a radio beam along which the plane may glide to a three-point landing...
...They told him he was headed straight for the length of the run-way.* Here the ingenious ''landing beam" began to work. Crossing the vertical needle on the beacon dial is a horizontal needle which swings up & down. If the plane is too high for its proper glide the needle swings up; if the plane is too low, down goes the needle. Pilot Kinney's job was to keep it centred, neatly bisecting the runway needle. Also he had to keep his ears alert for a shrill "Be-e-e-ep!" in his earphones. That meant...