Word: roaring
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...warmed up their engines. From the bull horns came the command: "White flag. Catapult planes." A lighted wand in the catapult officer's hand described a series of red circles in the darkness (the signal to the pilot to turn up his engine), then swooped down. With the roar of two colliding freight trains, the starboard catapult hurled its plane forward. It thundered off the bow and roared upward into the night, trailed by a blue glow from its exhaust stacks...
...World War II, racked up 51 combat missions, switched to jets. In 1948 Airman Selenger and three other wartime pilots formed the Air Force's famous "Acrojets," flew in 100 air shows across the U.S. While his wife and two children watched from the ground, Lefty would roar through the sky at upwards of 500 m.p.h., with the nose of his F-80 Shooting Star just 18 inches from the tailpipe of the lead plane...
...with a red flag in his hand. When he saw the Red Arrow rumbling toward him, he stood between the rails in the bright morning sunshine and waved desperately. He had to jump for his life. As the Red Arrow rounded the curve, its horn blasted. Then, with a roar and a blinding electric flash, its locomotive sliced through the rear Pullman of the express, derailed the car ahead, reared like a wounded beast, and toppled sideways in a blizzard of dust, broken glass and feathers from burst pillows...
Professor Beer's Social Sciences 2 class ended the year with a roar yesterday. Nine members donned costumes, climbed onto the New Lecture Hall platform, and presented a musical farce which ridiculed almost every author studied in the course...
...from New Mexico; from Point Mugu, a pleasant Navy station on the coast of Southern California; from Patrick Air Force Base in Florida; from the deck of the Navy's converted seaplane tender Norton Sound. Few ordinary citizens have ever seen them fly. Few more have heard their roar or seen their soaring sparks of light or puffs of dust on the desert. But in closely guarded factories all over the U.S., the birds are hatching. The head of one U.S. aircraft company predicts that within ten years they will dominate air warfare, and that piloted aircraft will...