Word: spiraling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have completely lost sight of the aerodrome. I've lost sight of Tom, also. Engine off, nose down, spiral, look all over the sky for Tom. I see him going down. I'll let him go, because it's too wonderful up here, I guess Tom has had engine-trouble or run out of petrol. He sees me and is waving with both hands. Down I go after him, over 100 miles an hour I'm now at 3000 again. Tom has landed...
...metre Nieuport, single control. This was the last type of machine he had flown at Avord and it is the first type taken up at this school. After a few short flights to demonstrate his ability and to learn the machine, he was sent up for practice in spiraling. For this you ascend to 1,000 metres and from that altitude you spiral down to 600 metres where you stop the spiral and descend to the ground in normal and wide turns. He commenced his spirals normally, but, when at 600 metres, he did not stop. At about this altitude...
...11th have at last been received in this country. As was known, Meeker was flying alone when the accident occurred, but according to the latest report his engine did not stall as was stated at first. After having reached a height of about 3,000 feet he undertook to spiral towards the ground. When a few hundred feet from earth he should have righted the machine and planed down, but either because he lost control of the machine, or became dizzy or ill, he failed to do so and plunged to the ground at a speed of an hundred miles...
...ruthless spiral...
Tibbott's helplessness was increased by the fact that Princeton, evidently underestimating her opponents' kicking ability, had only one man back to receive the punts. This paved the way for Yale's touchdown. Tibbott fumbled Guernsey's twisting spiral and as there was no one near to help him, it was comparatively easy for Way to scoop up the ball and dash the remaining 25 yards to the goal line. Besides out-kicking his opponent, Guernsey contributed directly to the score by two drop-kicks. The first, from his own 46-yard line, was the most spectacular kick...