Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 242William Blackwood, 1937 - England |
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Page 443
... pilot still facing the tail , waving and bellowing dis- tractedly . Beside Mason the girl laughed . " This is good stuff , " she said . Mason nodded . " It's his own idea , the first year we've done it . He brought it over with him from ...
... pilot still facing the tail , waving and bellowing dis- tractedly . Beside Mason the girl laughed . " This is good stuff , " she said . Mason nodded . " It's his own idea , the first year we've done it . He brought it over with him from ...
Page 581
... pilot thus immedi- ately enters an area of rising air . This may be ascending as much as two , or three , or more hundred feet above the hill - top before it begins to fall again on the leeward slope . It will bear the glider upward for ...
... pilot thus immedi- ately enters an area of rising air . This may be ascending as much as two , or three , or more hundred feet above the hill - top before it begins to fall again on the leeward slope . It will bear the glider upward for ...
Page 585
... pilot lands away from home , the machine has to be dismantled and carried back . There had been a previous case ... pilot's corpse . Wednesday , 26th June 1937 , was a perfect day for soaring flight ; even the Air Ministry , who are not ...
... pilot lands away from home , the machine has to be dismantled and carried back . There had been a previous case ... pilot's corpse . Wednesday , 26th June 1937 , was a perfect day for soaring flight ; even the Air Ministry , who are not ...
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