It was a space flight simulator--a descendant of the Link trainer which once taught plane pilots how to fly.
Joe's father arrived by plane at sunset of that same day, and he and three men from the Kenmore Precision Tool Company instantly closeted themselves with Mike in Major Holt's quarters.
It was black whipcord, with an Eisenhower jacket, narrow silver braid on the collar and cuffs, and a silver rocket for a badge where a plane pilot wears his wings.
The downward-hurtling trail of smoke was like a crippled plane falling flaming from the sky, except that no plane ever fell so fast.
Haney lay slumped in a reclining chair, on the other side of the plane cabin.
Even now, Joe didn't remember boarding this plane or getting into the bunk.
And the plane was sabotaged, and the gyros were ruined.
It was a pushpot, which could not possibly be called a jet plane because it could not possibly fly.
Here a dim line was beginning to show on the vertical-plane screen.
With an ejection seat, a jet pilot can be shot out of a plane traveling over Mach one, and live to tell about it.
The transport plane turned clumsily and began to taxi down the runway.
And now he wrily recognized that this was part payment for the efficiency and speed with which the Navy had trailed them on their landing, and for the use of a transport plane to take them back to the United States.
Her plane was barely south of Virginia when a spokesman for the Pentagon assured a news conference that the Defense Department had no information about an alleged non-terrestrial spaceship landing in Antarctica.
He'd taken an inter-urban bus instead of a plane out of Denver, and gotten off at a tiny town whose name he did not even notice.
There was a supply-plane on the runway, but the helicopter belonged at the base.
He found there was a plane due to take off shortly.
She commandeered a supply plane and took off immediately for Washington with the news of the event she'd witnessed, prints of Soames' photographs, and samples of the children's possessions which could be carried on her person.
When a radar detected a missile or an enemy plane, the broadcast said carefully, an induction furnace of the new type was turned upon the plane or missile.
And in consequence the jet-plane was ordered to change course and head west.
If we kept to soft snow, no planecould land near them.
She made a helpless gesture as the plane bellowed onward.
Fran had sketched it for Soames on the plane headed for New York and the disastrous broadcast.
Soames could even see the supply-plane waiting on the runway until it was time for take-off.
This inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit gives us the change of seasons.
He felt himself carried down an inclined plane at a swinging rate; the air smelt of dry earth, and presently it grew much warmer, though it was not at all close.
Gorlias now got the end of the fishing-line ashore, and took it in his teeth in order to climb up the inclined plane of the pier on his hands and feet, ape-fashion.
Indeed, Mr. Crawford has succeeded in taking his readers quite above the ordinary plane of novel interest.
The tower of the temple was ascended on the outside by an inclined plane carried around the four sides.
They are on the elevated plane of that pure theism which is the kernel of the Hebrew faith.
There have in the past been inventions and discoveries on the making of which society has suddenly leaped upward to a new and higher plane of existence.
All find a refuge in the houses, up to which a sort of inclined plane is arranged for their convenience.
The nose is broad and flattened, with rounded tip and rather rounded nostrils, theplane of which is upward.
Meanwhile we had acquired various new facts, and first and foremost we found that the dark plane rising from a warm body was only the upstreaming portion of a dust-free coat perpetually being renewed on the surface of the body.
That the whole weight carried by the screws should be at all times exactly below the center of gravity of the plane of support, whether it be horizontal or inclined.
An excess of temperature of a degree or two is sufficient to establish this dust-free coat, and it is easy to see the dust-free plane rising from it.
When a hill was met with, the road had to go around it, or if this was not possible, the engine had to be taken off and the cars pulled up or let down an inclined plane by means of a rope and stationary engine.
There his baggage would be piled on the roof of a car, which was drawn by horses to the foot of an inclined plane on the bank of the Schuylkill.
There was one such inclined plane at Albany; another at Belmont, now in Philadelphia; a third on the Paterson and Hudson Railroad near Paterson; and a fourth on the Baltimore and Ohio.
Again the chief the instructive chart extends, And o'er the figured plane attentive bends; To him the motion of each orb was known, That wheels around the sun's refulgent throne.
In vain he spreads the graduated chart, And bounds the distance by the rules of art; Across the geometric plane expands The compasses to circumjacent lands: Ungrateful task!
As previously mentioned, differentiation of stages in the contingent plane is an obstacle to understanding.
Likewise man discovereth those hidden secrets of nature that in conformity with the laws thereof must remain concealed, and transfereth them from the invisible plane to the visible.
It is clear that, after the gradual introduction of the tin and other substances, the second rent (b b) was produced by another fracture accompanied by a displacement of the rocks along the plane of b b.
The axis of the coral, for example, if its natural growth is erect, still remains at right angles to the plane of stratification.
In the same plane with the roots is a bed of coal, eight or ten inches thick, which has been ascertained to extend across the railway, or to the distance of at least ten yards.
A] The walls of the fissure are scored by grooves, such as would have been produced if the broken ends of the rock had been rubbed along the plane of the fault.
The rock splits most easily in the plane of these darker layers, and the surface thus exposed is almost entirely covered with shining spangles of mica.
They were all in a vertical position, with respect to theplane of the bed, which dips about 15 deg.
He came down in a tremendous vol-plane from an unknown height.
I reckoned that my petrol supply would not last for more than another hour or so, but I could afford to use it to the last drop, since a single magnificent vol-plane could at any time take me to the earth.
Here we have the higher Buddhism, which seeks to reach the plane of spirit, an "alliance with the upper world" by the aid of solitary reverie.
Besides, they have always tried to keep recreation on that higher plane where it may do good and not harm.
Something must have happened to the motor or else a planeguy broke to cripple them!
But let's get busy now, and put the plane into shape, so we can slip along home.
Frank Bird laughed merrily at the picture drawn by his cousin and then stooping again, with a few deft turns of a heavy cord, helped Andy secure the broken plane so it would not get into trouble during the coming night.
The plane automatically signaling for an emergency pilot!
Arcot turned the plane once more, parallel to the Earth, watching the plane above through the roof window.
The man ahead was pushing his plane ahead with an acceleration that would have killed many men!
The men in that mighty plane could not see it as their machine bore down into the little cloud of gas.
The giant plane had struck about twenty feet from the top of a nearly perpendicular cliff.
The plane jumped back with an appalling crash, a roar of rending metal.
That could only mean that theplane had been gassed under the very eyes of his men!
Now the scene seemed to swing a bit as the plane hit an unusually bad air bump, and through the window they caught a glimpse of one of the circling Air Guardsmen.
Under that touch the mighty plane began crumbling, then it splintered beneath the driving blow of the great wing, as it shot toward the main body of the plane at several miles a second--driving into and through it!
Obviously it is much easier to detect me here among solid surroundings, than in the planehigh in the sky.
The other day several men came into Dad's office, to charter a plane to San Francisco, and Dad naturally wondered why they had been referred to the president of the company.
Whole flying observatories had been made that had taken photographs at heights of fifteen miles, where the air was so rarefied that the plane had to travel close to eight hundred miles an hour to remain aloft.
On it was printed: To the Officials of the San Francisco Airport Inside was a short message, printed in the same sharp, black letters: Gentlemen: This plane should land safely.
Now the plane climbed steadily in a long bank; up, up, up she went, and gradually the terrific roar of the engine died to a low throbbing hum as the low pressure of the air silenced the noise.
VI Arcot lifted the Solarite at once high into the air, and started toward the point on the border, where the plane had been seen crossing.
The lifting up of silver to its rightful plane by the side of gold will set in motion all the latent energies of the people.
Money was the most potent instrumentality in the evolution of society from a low to a high plane of civilization.
He did not take advantage of the popular credulity for his own pecuniary gain, and was therefore morally far above the plane of an ordinary charlatan.
The ethics of quackery are probably on the same plane everywhere; and not only are the spells forthcoming, if sufficient compensation be assured, but they are also more or less effective, through the power of suggestion, as therapeutic agents.
Notoriety was distasteful to him, and in this respect he was above the plane of an ordinary charlatan.
To Ben Mariquita seemed almost like one belonging to another world, certainly living on a plane above his comprehension, where ordinary love-making would be, somehow, unfitting and hopeless.
It was not that, for an instant, she thought them on the same plane of interest--but we must here interrupt ourselves as she was interrupted.
In him dwelt that rare quality of lifting others almost to that plane on which he dwelt himself, of making men nobler and better almost in spite of themselves.
In the case of Kheyr-ed-Din Barbarossa, a great man of action if one ever lived, we find no trace of devoted adherents on that high plane of command we have indicated in the cases cited above.
We moved to the parlor; Sophronia took the lounge, while I found the floor a little harder than I supposed an ex-soldier could ever find any plane surface.
It did not take me long, however, to learn that the parlor-floor was not a plane surface.
