Pulling the chassis from this rise in the snow, they were both astounded to find the body of the car shift to one side and sink into the snow.
The two boys made this attempt and, as often as they thought they had patched up the shattered ski and mounted into the car in attempts to make a start, the patched strip of wood would part and the chassis would lunge again into the snow.
The car dropped slowly and safely in the midst of the clearing, and when it touched the snow the landing chassis caught and the airship stopped as if in collision with a wall.
A pivot about which the chassis swings, in some kinds of gun carriages.
Defn: Of an automobile body, suspended from the springs in such a manner that the frame of the chassis is below the axles, the object being to lower the center of gravity of the car.
Defn: One of the circular iron or steel rails on which the chassis of a heavy gun is turned.
For large size power-driven models, unless provided with a chassis and wheels to enable them to run along and rise from the ground under their own power, the launching is a problem of considerable difficulty.
After a hearty supper they retired to bed in the chassis of the aeroplane, all as tired out as it is possible for healthy boys to be.
As he spoke he leaned out from thechassis and hurled the bomb high in the air.
It was a new type, designed for the Daily Mail Hydroplane Race round Great Britain, but at the time of the accident had a land chassis instead of floats.
For some time the "wheeled" chassis has been in universal use, but in a few cases it has been thought desirable to adopt a combination of runners and wheels.
A small trolley was fitted to thechassis of the machine and this ran along the railway.
In more modern machines the chassis is equipped with two or more small rubber-tyred wheels on which the machine runs along the ground before rising into the air, and on which it alights when a descent is made.
Upon my certificate each chassis was declared in perfect running order, and was then handed over to the body-makers indicated by the purchaser.
The testing of those chassis in Regent's Park, and an occasional run with some wealthy customer out on the Great North Road or on the Bath or Brighton roads, became too quiet a life for me.
Eagerly they climbed out of the chassis of the aeroplane and investigated the place.
It was at four o'clock in the morning by the auto clock affixed to the chassis that Frank noticed the wind begin to drop.
He bent over and picked up one of the rifles with which the side of the chassiswas furnished.
I mean to make a stunning thing of it," he remarked, eying the huge chassis critically.
To meet the weight of the gun, as well as the strains and stresses incidental to firing, the chassis was strengthened, especially over the rear axle near which the mounting is placed.
They are sturdily-built vehicles fitted with heavy motors, developing from 40 to 50 horse-power, with the chassis not widely dissimilar from that adopted for motor-omnibus traffic.
For such arms a special and substantial chassis is imperative, while the motive power and gearing must be adapted to the circumstances.
The observer leant over the chassis and critically surveyed the two figures in German uniforms.
A small black object dropped from underneath the chassis of the aeroplane.
Chassis Lubrication This book contains detailed information covering lubrication of all units.
However, the incident quieted down, the inventors took their seats on this chassis of their own making, while Bert, having seen that the coast was clear, listened to the puff of the engine.
Hugh grudgingly, pushing the chassis from side to side, when it certainly had what might be described as freedom of movement.
The chassisframework might have been its intended resting-place from the very commencement.
What a triumph its construction had been, and how well it seemed to act now that it was duly assembled and mounted on the wooden chassis of the car!
The chassis bounded forward, very nearly hurling the box which acted as a seat from it.
Hugh gripped the side of the chassis as the secret was mentioned.
This chart presents the plan view of a typical six-cylinder chassis of standard design and all parts are clearly indicated that demand oil, also the frequency with which they must be lubricated and the kind of oil to use.
Contains instructions for repairing all types of axles, steering gears and other chassis parts.
New forms of change speed gears, and final power transmission systems, and all latest chassis improvements are shown and described.
The landing chassiswere altered, single skids being substituted for the wider landing chassis employed in the seaplane.
The single-skid landing chassis with buffers is the outstanding difference.
By use of small-wheeled trucks or overhead tractors it would be carried first to the waiting chassis of the motor truck--in case the manufacturer was not able to command railroad siding facilities for himself.
Two of them would fit comfortably upon the chassis of a large truck--three or four, upon the frame of an electric car--for either city or interurban use.
For the car on which he rode was a truck-chassis upon which had been builded a cross-seat body, with accommodations for some fifteen or sixteen passengers.
But nex' time you break the chassis and keel yourself, nom d'un tonnerre, I scol' you!
Smashed landing chassis in coming down, shook me up a little.
A pivot about which the chassis swings, in some kinds of gun carriages.
One of the circular iron or steel rails on which the chassis of a heavy gun is turned.
As he did so a ragged volley greeted him, the bullets either passing through the aluminium covering of the chassis or else whizzing harmlessly overhead.
In vain they looked over the side of the chassis in the hope of seeing a tangible proof of their victory.
As for Roy, he lay on the floor of the chassis unaware of what was transpiring without.
From the bottom of the chassis Roy demanded: "Are we too late?
Ah, I see you encountered our guns in the chassis of the aeroplane.
This was readily promised, and ten minutes later the three young aviators were in the chassis of the big monoplane.
Roy was just about to clamber into the chassis when Peggy and Jess, who had been missing for several minutes, emerged from their tent.
As they touched the ground she leaped nimbly from the chassis and sped over the burning desert floor to the side of the recumbent wayfarer.
Peering over the edge of the chassis they all scrutinized it closely.
You girls take his feet and we'll put him in the bottom of the chassis on those cushions.
Peggy and Roy had slipped into their linen coats and donned their hideous masks with the blue sun goggles, when a figure slipped up on the other side of the chassis and clambered unobserved into the box-like structure.
In the chassis of the machine with the travelers were placed a stock of canned goods, a pick and shovel and several hundred feet of fine but tough rope.
The landing chassis was composed of oval section steel tubes, which ran together at two apexes.
The left side of the chassis was twisted; some of the stays were broken, and the left-hand plane was badly ripped.
The chassis is rather rumpled, but no other damage done.
He caught the chassis as we rose, and we were gone before he could let go.
Remembering the mishap with Major Endicott up the river, he got Fazl to protect the engine and the petrol cans by slinging a number of iron plates under the chassis of the aeroplane.
The second plan is to build a flexible body so that the chassis will "give" rather than resist when subjected to hard strains.
A third drum in the center of the chassis attached to the shaft of the second drum winds a cable which goes to an equalizing bar just in front of the trailer brake.
In 1909 came the machine with four-wheeled chassis and ailerons and later an improved edition which reverted to the central skid idea.
I should imagine that you understood building chassis better than this racing driver.
Fuselage~, old style; landing chassis on three wheels only, with a single ash skid in front.
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