Word: upwind
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With these doubts in mind, some of the observers, while there was still 15 minutes to go, high-tailed it for the wardroom and coffee. The rest waited. Upwind from the loudspeaker came ripped fragments of speech: "five minutes"-"one minute." Everybody stood up, tamped the cotton tighter in his ears, cupped his hands over them in the bargain, spread his feet wide apart...
...head winds, got up at times to 16,000 ft. He had started with 525 gallons, but after passing Philadelphia he began to worry about his gas. When he sighted his destination, Floyd Bennett Field, he decided he was just about dry. So, instead of circling to come in upwind, he streaked in downwind for a "hot" landing. His wife, watching from the ground, put her hand to her mouth. But Pancho got down neatly and smoothly at about 115 m.p.h...
...radio officer at the airport hears that the Akron is about to return. The lounging ground crew springs into action. A large cloth panel with the figures "63" is spread on the ground, tells Commander Rosen dahl the ground temperature. Another panel, striped, is spread several hundred feet "upwind" from the mooring mast and marked by two lantern-swinging grounds men. A smoke candle is lighted to show the direction of the ground wind. Presently there is a drone of engines from the east, then the wink of two white bow lights, two green starboard lights, two red port lights...