Word: tail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest pilot you ever saw!" Whereupon he returned to the Yankee Doodle to salvage yet a third conqueror of the airs above the continent It was none other than the ship's mascot?a "hot dog" skillfully converted by the deft use of toothpicks for legs and tail and a ribbon about the neck into an esthetic complement...
...horizontal stabilizer, but a "stagger" so pronounced that the lower wing itself was almost in the position of a stabilizer. It also had the eccentricity of a decolage, or angle of the lower wing in relation to 'the upper wing, and a pilot's seat placed back against the tail. Questions addressed to a nervous, alert, bearded little man, seldom far away, brought vociferous response supplemented by rapid curves and graphs sketched upon a pad always in hand, to prove the qualities of stability possessed by this unique craft. Having completed the professoriat demonstration Prof. A. A. Merril...
...Seizing tail, Mrs. Jackson tugged kitten from torn ear, killed kitten. Soon Dr. Frederick Adams, a Board of Health official, cut off kitten's head and sent it to the Provincial Laboratories at Toronto to be examined for rabies symptoms. Meanwhile prattling Jeanette Jackson received Pasteur treatment, did not seem to have rabies...
...Looking back I was stunned to see the rear engine enveloped in flames, which even as I looked, stretched out like a giant blowlamp rearwards over the seat occupied by Elwood Hosmer and beyond the rudder and tail. In the darkness the whole machine must have appeared like a grotesque red comet. The whole situation seemed like a nightmare and quite unreal. Even now I find it difficult to realize we were in a blazing airplane over mid-Atlantic at midnight . . . seemed impossible to put down safely in the dark on a burning seaplane which still had a ton overload...
...Kingston, North Carolina, small Willard Watson, 13, equipped two aged hens with wing planes and pushed them off the roof of a barn, 20 feet above ground. One hen glided about 50 feet, settled in a duck pond, whence she was rescued. The other tail-spinned, dropped, broke...