Word: take-off
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...three months they were ready. On the night set for their takeoff, the engine wouldn't start. Carburetor trouble. But next night came the music of exhaust explosions. With the Nazis so near they did not dare wait to warm up the engine. However, the take-off's only flaw was the lopping of some branches off a few trees. Over the Channel they climbed to 9,000 feet but the old crate's engine began to conk out, and they had to descend to about 1,300 feet...
...train pilots and navigators for the bombers, Transcontinental & Western Air Inc. (T.W.A.) had established and staffed a post-graduate flying school at Albuquerque. Its students: U.S. Army pilots who will fly the bombers from U.S. factories to transatlantic take-off points in Canada; British and U.S. civilian fliers, who will then deliver the planes to the British Isles...
Last week, this toughest of take-off troubles happened to a Pennsylvania Central Airlines pilot as he left the hill-bordered Charleston (W.Va.) field, headed for Pittsburgh with six passengers, copilot and stewardess aboard. Pilot Russell Wright had lifted his 10-passenger Boeing 2470 no more than 10 feet off the ground when his starboard motor quit cold. He was past the point where he could plump down on the airport; he had to go on. Quickly he feathered the prop on the dead engine, thus killed its racking rotation, ruinous drag. Co-pilot William Riley snapped up the landing...
...hangar. To get her out, they had had to deflate her tires and weight her tail, so that the nose wheel of her tricycle landing gear was off the ground. Even then her rudder barely cleared the top of the door. And no wonder. For standing in take-off position, the top of her rudder is more than 42 ft. above the ground, higher than an ordinary three-story building...
...range (600 miles farther to sea than any other model), and fire power (double the punch of any single-engined Navy airplane now in service). Built for operation from carriers, Helldiver, 1941 is light and nifty on its feet. Curtiss-Wright said that it has a faster take-off than a pursuit plane, is unusually fast and maneuverable in flight...