When the gliders reached the end of the cricket army they sent up rockets, and then darted hither and yon over the rear ranks shooting chloroform in great quantities on all sides.
While the Selinites were making gliders under the instructions and guided by Billy, Epworth made a thorough search in the neighborhood for a large salt deposit.
The Taunans and crickets did not see the camouflaged gliders slip softly out of the border gap, and sail slowly toward the smoking gun nest.
Fortunately we have fifty thousand of the gliders armed, and the aviators have some idea of what we intend to do.
With this material they worked for another day, building three small gliders propelled with foot-power and elevated by running down hill.
On the evening of the sixth day he had fifty thousand gliders and as many chloroform guns ready for use.
The fight began with a clear sky but the explosion of the heavy gun seemed to shake the air and send clouds of blackened powder upward, and long before the gliders were in good action a dark cloud spread across the sky.
In addition to this, they covered their gliders with asbestos.
The gliders were, of course, a venture, constructed along original lines, but when Epworth tried them out the night they were finished, he found that he could easily float them in the air against the slight gravity of the moon.
Commenced experiments withgliders in 1899 on Lilieuthal lines.
They fashioned their gliders of two parallel main planes like those of Octave Chanute.
Not only the schools but the colleges also have taken up aviation, and nearly every college has its glider club, and the students work many hours making the gliders with which they contest for distance records with other clubs.
He used balloons to carry up the gliders and when they reached the required altitude the operator cut the cable.
To those unaccustomed to the actions ofgliders it would have seemed that the engineless biplane would be blown backward over the edge of the hill.
These wings really were rude gliders and the principle remained in the minds of men, even in those days when their chief occupation was war.
This was the system of practising on gliders before attempting to go into the air with power-driven machines.
The winglike gliders of Lilienthal and Chanute had been balanced by the shifting of the operator's body, but the Wrights wanted a much bigger and safer machine than either of these pioneers had flown.
If the Sov-world delegates vote against use of gliders as reconnaissance craft, the Neut-world will vote with them.
The other two gliders bore a single passenger apiece, and were seemingly moving as quietly as were Joe and Freddy, but gliders in motion are deceptive.
In seconds the other two gliders were after him, riding his tail.
Going to want your guns so hidden that those two gliders of McCord's will fail to spot them.
We'll mount a gun on your sailplane and you'll attack those two gliders Cogswell says General McCord has.
Unfortunately, I failed to realize the speed with which every professional in our category would jump upon the bandwagon and secure gliders for himself.
Put your mind to work on devising Maxim gun mounts to be used to keep enemy gliders at as high altitude as possible, or preferably, of course, to bring them down.
It's true enough gliders were flown before the year 1900, but not the kind of advanced sailplanes you have to utilize for them to be practical.
Certainly there were nogliders in use capable of carrying a machine gun.
In fact, there's a good chance that using gliders at all will be forbidden when the International Disarmament Commission convenes next month.
Had they high performance glidersof forty, or even thirty-five, gliding angle ratios, he would have been lost.
He let loose a burst at the pursuing gliders over the smaller man's head, and just missing his own tail section.
Besides, I owe you something for that spectacular scene when you came skimming over the treetops, the two enemy gliders right behind you, then stalling your craft and crashing into that tree not thirty feet from my open air headquarters.
All three gliders had climbed considerably, and the terrain below was indistinct.
We didn't spend our time fooling with gliders or blow ourselves up monkeying with pragmatism.
We can form no intelligent estimate as to the number of unlicensed amateurs of all ages who are constantly experimenting with gliders at more or less peril to life and limb.
The difference between gliders and model aeroplanes is, that gliders must be made much lighter because they are designed to be projected through the air by a kick of some kind.
The constant fear of all gliders is, that the machine will point downwardly, and his motion, as well as the position of the body, tend to shoot it upwardly, instead.
It is not our purpose to give a treatise on this subject but to confine this chapter to an exposition of a few of the gliders and model forms which are found to be most efficient for experimental work.
There is one direction in which gliders are valuable to the boy and to the novice who are interested in aviation.
It is doubtful whether gliders contributed much to the art in the direction of laterally stabilizing aeroplanes.
It treats of kites, gliders and model aeroplanes, and has an Interesting chapter on the aeroplane and its uses In the great war.
Herring, a much younger man who had already learned to use a Lilienthal machine, made a series of experiments, with gliders of old and new types, on the shores of Lake Michigan, during the summer of 1896.
Archdeacon and the Voisins were made with man-carrying Hargrave box-kites, or with gliders made on the same principle, which were towed in the air behind a fast motor-boat travelling down the Seine.
But in their early gliders this warping process acted in an unexpected way.
Gliders as a rule have only one rudder, and this is in the rear.
While experimenting with gliders the Wrights made flights innumerable under all sorts of conditions and never had an accident of any kind.
Dave snapped his eyes out through the door opening just in time to see one of the gliders dive straight into the ground not fifty feet from where he stood.
Our only hope is to skim back over the trees and let those gliders have the hand grenades from fifty feet.
Think of thousands and thousands of thosegliders being directed across the Channel to England!
A wall of TNT loaded gliders swinging around in the night sky in solid formation.
Hundreds of gliders with no cockpit as far as he could see.
To blurt out in amazement at seeing the powered gliderswas the same as telling the German they didn't know very much.
Noses tilted upward close to the stalling point, the gliders climbed up in the sunset flooded heavens until they were no more than a couple of specks in the sky.
And then, if towed gliders are practical, they might solve the problem of carrying pay loads in cross-country flights.
The first things that they built were kites, and then gliders that were flown as kites.
We would lunch in London, or he would cone to see my gliders at Crest Hill, and make new projects for getting at those heaps again now with me, now alone.
I set to work almost concurrently on the balance and stability of gliders and upon the steering of inflated bags, the latter a particularly expensive branch of work.
The practical difficulty of this arrangement, however, arose from the fact that when once set to swaying the gliders thus constructed continued to sway like the pendulum of a clock.
Nineteenth Century Experiments In the early part of the last century an Englishman, Sir George Cayley, made many experiments with gliders and tabulated with great care the results of his investigations.
Experiments with Gliders Through the latter part of the last century experiments were carried on with gliders.
Down to the latter part of the nineteenth century only the gliders were successfully used in man flight.
The child will find it interesting to make a number of these gliders and then go one day to a window or high place and let them glide to the ground and thus find out the bird that has the longest flight.
In making bird gliders the following points should be remembered: (1) Draw the bird in a circle as already explained, this ensures that the wings will be exactly balanced.
Experiments with gliders will enable boys to find out some of the principles on which aeroplanes are built, and will prepare them to undertake the construction of more difficult forms.
Other forms of gliders can be made, but they are all on the same principle, a somewhat long body, wings and weight adjusted to keep them from falling.
Gliders may be either of the monoplane or biplane type.
Low over the hilly country a fleet of transports and gliders swept in from the sea.
Gliders were casting off their toggle hooks and swooping earthward.
Lilienthal and the other gliders had all made their flights above the solid ground.
One of the great difficulties of the earlygliders was their tendency to turn over sidewise.
It was not until 1895 that he began to build the first of the series of gliders with which he earned his plane among the pioneers of flight.
It embodied the results of very lengthy experiments carried out both with gliders and power-driven machines by Colonel Capper, Lieut.
In the first two gliders this control was also used for steering to right and left.
This officer carried out a large number of experiments with gliders contemporarily with the Wrights, adopting--like them--the Chanute biplane principle.
The gliders were found so stable, more especially the biplane form, that in the end Chanute permitted amateurs to make trials under guidance, and throughout the whole series of experiments not a single accident occurred.
They collected all the theory available in the books published up to that time, and then built man-carrying gliders with which to test the data of Lilienthal and such other authorities as they had consulted.
A French army officer, Captain Ferber was experimenting with monoplane and biplane gliders at the beginning of the century-his work was contemporary with that of the Wrights.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gliders" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
