Word: tails
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...While thus engaged "Trun-un-ng-tsss" --a black puff of smoke appeared behind my tail and I had the impression of having a piece of iron hiss by. "Must have got my range, first shot!" I surmised, and making a steep bank, pique'd heavily. "There, I've lost them now!" The whole art of avoiding shells is to pay no attention till they get your range, and then dodge away, change altitude and generally avoid going in a straight line. In point of fact, I could see bunches of exploding shells up over my right shoulder...
...penguin," a 25-horsepower Bleriot monoplane, which is so termed because its wings are clipped so that it cannot leave the ground. The tendency of the machine is to travel in circles and thereby the novice is educated in steering an aeroplane, and in driving it with the tail horizontal. Handling the engine properly is also taught. The next step is to another "penguin," this time of 35 horsepower. Not until near perfection is reached is the third step, to a 35 horsepower Bleriot monoplane, permitted. This machine is flown about a quarter mile in a straight flight, rising from...
...important part of the training will come next summer during the encampment period at Tobyhanna. The Aircraft Company is building a peculiar type of observation kites which are used by the thousands in the European war today. These kites are about 80 feet long and have a sack or tail which fills with air and keeps the balloon steady. They rise to a height of 2,000 or 3,000 feet and are connected by a cable to an automobile. The cable has a telephone wire inside so that the operators in the balloon can telephone where they observe...
...Smith gives a somewhat exuberantly enthusiastic account of the student conference at Kansas City, but even the printer's error of inserting the tail piece several pages before the conclusion cannot conceal the evident sincerity with which it is written...
...competition will then be outlined. Be a scream! There are a lot of chestnuts still left on the tree. Get under it and shake down a few! This is your last chance to be funny. Get in before the rush! Be a wag even if you are on the tail...