Word: hovers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...studio and a trip to the U.S. And as his canvases get bigger and bigger, he is also intrigued by the thought of another project: "I'd like to buy one of those flying platforms they've just designed. Gosh, with one of those you could hover any place you wanted, and you could make 40-ft. brush strokes...
...accomplished by deflecting jets of air and gas in the desired directions. His electric models, which simulate the control problem of a full-scale aerodyne, fly very well. Attached to an electric cable, to supply power and control signals, they rise on an even keel, circle around a hangar, hover indefinitely and land without a jolt...
...plane circled for its landing, Padre Gonzalez Salas quietly pledged himself, if the passengers were saved, to crawl on his hands and knees from the bottom to the top of the Spanish hill called Cerro de Los Angeles. At last the Constellation seemed to hover for a moment over the runway; then it touched and skidded, screaming and careening, while a U.S. Air Force crash truck sped alongside ready to spray it with a flame-extinguishing foam...
...able." "He talks freely about delicate problems," said a Dispatch to the Quai d'Orsay. "He is a master at creating an atmosphere of relaxed tension." Recently, before deciding to go himself to Geneva, Khrushchev remarked at a garden party: "I trust Bulganin. No one has to hover at his elbow...
...Home in the Air. Pilot Howe makes landing sound just as easy. "The pilot," he says, "merely selects the spot where he wants to land. He brings the VTOL to a hovering position-and lands." According to him, the VTOL is as at home in the air as a dragonfly. It can hover indefinitely, its engines blasting downward. It can fly backward and sideways and spin like a waltzing mouse...