Word: winds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...national aircraft situation and give his testimony on what youth can, does and should do in the air. A licensed pilot since he was 13, the young man can navigate the subtle technicalities of aeronautical theory quite as readily as he copes in practice with air-pockets, cross winds, cloud banks and wind squalls...
...even be so enlightened as Mr. Heard, Bishop of Bampopo. Bampopo's in South Africa and Mr. Heard is in Norman Douglas' attractively iconoclastic novel, "South Wind." Now he had a most yielding view of south strange sects as Baptists. Classed them with the natives of M'tezo. Incurable heathen, the M'tezo. They filed their teeth, ate their superfluous female relations, swapped wives every new moon, and never wore a stitch of clothes. But they despised lying. One could not help liking them. But Baptists...
Powdery snowflakes whispered down through the dusk. The wind drowsed. Out of a cavernous shed on a field in Belleville, Ill., a great grey shape slid out of lurking and moved off through the gathering night, purring a basso profundo that swelled to a dull roar as a white eye and a red in the creature's belly were seen to rise from the earth, twinkle slowly higher and disappear...
...creature's masters left their perches beneath her helium-filled belly. They reported that their charge, the RS-1, sole semirigid* dirigible in the U. S. and largest in the world, had conducted herself most gracefully on her frost-christened maiden flight. Aloft there had been an elevenmile wind, through which she had glided at 40 m. p. h. in steady circles over her abode...
...horse to me. When I try to make the horse go one way he may or may not. That depends on what he wants to do. I think that adequately illustrates the situation. The Shenandoah disaster is an example, and there are many others which indicate the way the wind carries these craft. I think that a well-built plane would have survived the gale...