Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...touching the ground, the plane ran along, neatly balanced on its one wheel, for a few seconds. Then the wheelless axle struck the sun-baked earth; the plane dragged 30 yards, suddenly flopped over on its back...
...great economies in air transportation. The greater the load which a power plant can pull the cheaper the charges for passengers or freight, and the better the profits for the entrepreneurs. The chief difficulty at present seems to be the initial motive power to start the train from the ground. Once in the air the motor pull for a train is not much greater than for a single plane. Railroaders and motor truckers have the same problem on an easier scale. A solution for the air seems to be multi-motored planes with all engines working for the take...
...soon as the condition of the ground will permit, the two golf greens, which the Athletic Committee voted to be laid out on the Longfellow Track at Soldiers Field, will be constructed. The laying out of the two greens, for which appropriations were made at the December meeting of the Committee is the first step in a program to encourage golf as a sport in the University...
When an internal combustion motor operates it generates heat. In practically all automobile motors the heat is diffused by circulating water. Water takes up room and has weight. Weight and bulk have little importance in ground motoring but in flying they form a great handicap. Air-cooled motors are lighter and preferable...
Costes raged and rushed to Le Bourget field outside Paris. Mechanics warned him that his motor was not in perfect tune, No matter; he would go. And as night set in he pulled his controls. The motor stuttered yet lifted him clear of the ground in a slow ascent. He barely cleared some telegraph wires, a village church steeple. At Bondy Forest, only a few miles from Paris, the motor failed altogether and his plane clattered among the trees. In the rip-up he strained his leg, the only leg left him by the War. Helped to the ground...