Word: groundedness
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Flying west, he was grounded at Denver. He got a seat in another plane, but halfway to Salt Lake City the weather ahead forced the ship to return to its field. He took a third ship-and that was grounded for four hours at Albuquerque. Thus, at Los Angeles, at...
The Germans suffered also from lack of air support. Obviously Hitler had weakened the Luftwaffe, which once ruled Russian skies, to bolster the Axis forces in Tunisia. When the fighting began, planes of both sides were grounded in heavy mists. When the mists cleared, German air bases had been captured...
The Westinghouse laboratories have been using small-scale models to demonstrate that lightning can be grounded by a new type of anti-lightning device. The device is a "clothesline" of steel wire strung between two poles. Its importance is that inflammable buildings, like munitions plants, arsenals or oil depots, can...
Yerex' planes will continue to fly and to rile Pan Am. For Yerex has already served the U.S. Army too well to be grounded-Americanized or not.
A moment later the bombs were falling. Low-swooping Zeros spattered bullets into grounded U.S. fighter planes and transports. Lieut. Joe Walker was barely off the ground when Zeros attacked, forced him to hedgehop across tea plantations to escape into the mountains. Another P-40 pilot, unable to take off...