Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feet, where the air was clear. Noting that the gasoline gauge was low, he turned on an auxiliary tank. Both motors spat, stopped. The plane nosed into a slow, singing glide. Pilot Neely peered down at the billowing, blinding sea of dust between him and the ground. Small indeed were his chances of landing safely. On the plane's interphone he spoke an order to another lieutenant, a corporal and a private in a rear compartment: Jump...
...prepared to follow. He paused: what of the third man, whom he had not seen? If he for some reason had stayed in the ship, he would surely die. Pilot Neely decided to stay, too, and fly the ship down. In the dusty dark, unbroken as he neared the ground, he had only his lighted instruments to tell him whether he was on an even keel, only his altimeter to tell him when he was close to the unpredictable earth. Harold Neely's luck equaled his pluck. The bomber missed all the gullies, fences, poles, wires, barns, houses, livestock...
...Announced the formation of a new Air Corps unit, concentrating all defensive aircraft (such as pursuit ships to drive off enemy bombers), anti-aircraft batteries, ground warning systems, in a single, centralized command. Hitherto these defensive functions have been scattered among Coast Artillery, Signal Corps, the Air Corps's General Headquarters Air Force. Now GHQ Air Force can be solely what it was intended to be-a powerful, offensive striking arm for attack on enemy centres...