Soon the shore was left behind, and the huge aëroplane was flying between the two skies--the real sky above and the reflected sky below.
The aëroplane would be flying all night long, but it was desirable that it take off while there was yet some light.
Tons of the silver horror had already accumulated upon the under surface of the great planes and weighted down the aëroplane until it was impossible for it to rise in the air.
Essentially, the aëroplane may be compared to a kite in which the pull of the string is replaced by the thrust of the propeller.
In its earliest form the aëroplane consisted of a flat surface moved through the air in a position slightly inclined from the horizontal; in its forward movement the plane experiences resistance from the air.
The battle was fought by the great cannon and the scouting aëroplane that circled high overhead and signaled the range to the distant battery.
After making a brief skimming flight above the water of Lake Keuka, New York, he declared that with a more powerful engine the pioneer aëroplane could sustain itself perfectly in the air.
Overhead floats until it is chased away an aëroplane with little black crosses, that you can scarcely see at his respectful height, peering to see what more harm may be done in the desolation and ruin.
It has been urged that flight to the moon in an aëroplane is possible--the want of air is no hindrance!
I can no more think of the course of organic evolution as being accidental in the Darwinian sense, than I can think of the evolution of the printing-press or the aëroplane as being accidental, although chance has played its part.
Every afternoon from just behind our lines an aëroplane buzzed up.
When our aëroplane man[oe]uvered clear you could hear a sigh of relief run along the trench.
An aëroplane is inherently stable if it keeps in steady poise by virtue of its shape and proportions alone; it is automatically stable if it keeps in steady poise by means of self- operative mechanism.
An aëroplane or airship designed to carry passengers.
A compact form of hydro-aëroplane having one central body, or hull.
Those dividends from our share of the hydroaëroplane plant will fit out an expedition, and if we fail--well, we can still sell out our interest and help dad get on his feet again.
It was a friendly, chatty note from the boy, and enclosed the checks covering the joint dividends of Jack and Tom in the Hydroaëroplane Company.
It was a day made to order, so far as aëroplane flying was concerned.
I'd like to travel in an aëroplane all the time," remarked McGlory.
To slow the aëroplane too much would mean a drop into the water, for a certain rate of flight was necessary in order to keep the machine aloft.
What I want to do is to put the aëroplane to some profitable use.
Motor Matt, as the aëroplane skimmed over the surface of the river.
The other aëroplane which you and Mrs. Traquair sold the war department is going to prove such a success that I am sure the government will be after this one.
You have demonstrated, beyond all doubt, that the Traquair aëroplane can travel across country equally as well as around a prescribed course.
It can go farther and do more than any other aëroplane on the market.
In less than fifty feet the aëroplane was going too fast for the runners.
Spearman, in his shirt sleeves, was tying one end of a riata to the timber which passengers in the aëroplane used as a footrest.
Matt, and who nearly loses his life when the aëroplane is tested.
Looking his sister squarely in the face, he said, "I am sorry to seem disobliging but I cannot show your friends my aëroplane and I am surprised to find that they know I have one.
So Grace told Mrs. Gray the story of Anne's father, beginning from where he had intercepted Anne on her way from the aëroplane exhibition during her freshman year, up to the time of the arrival of his letter begging for money.
The boys lost no time in getting the aëroplane into the house, David slammed the doors, and triumphantly turned the key in the lock just as Miriam and her party came up.
Grace, who had a taste for mechanics, asked all sorts of questions, until Hippy asked her if she intended building an aëroplane of her own.
Then help me get my aëroplane into the shed quickly," exclaimed David.
The drone of an aëroplane high in the midnight sky came to them at intervals.
If the aëroplane had landed, there was no sign here.
The same curious pale-green moss covered the trees, and beyond the garden wall, in a field, was a hole where a German aëroplane had dropped a bomb.
We regret," he said seriously, "that at the moment there is no aëroplane in sight.
I put my eyes to the openings, and tried to imagine an aëroplane overhead, manoeuvring to drop a bomb or a dart on me while I calculated its altitude.
A German aëroplane could wreck the airship easily.
A French aëroplane was overhead, but there was little bustle and activity along the road.
We will suppose," he said, "that a German aëroplane is approaching.
But when, late that afternoon, a German aëroplane actually flew over the station, the works had closed down for the day and the men were gone.
A German aëroplane hung overhead and called the bull's-eyes.
You wouldn't get her to ride in that aëroplane in a thousand years," declared McGlory.
Motor Matt was not seriously injured, but the aëroplane was damaged.
Unless something happens to the aëroplane we'll never overhaul it.
The aëroplane was guarded by Ping until Matt, Cameron, and McGlory reached Sykestown over the trail to Jessup's and sent a team and wagon back to bring the damaged machine into town.
This scoundrelly attack on my aëroplane will come in for part of the accounting.
Matt decided to swing the aëroplane to a point alongside the automobile and not more than a dozen feet above the ground, traveling in company with the car and making inquiries of the man in the driver's seat.
Our plans failed at the aëroplane trials,[A] but I've got another scheme which I am sure will win.
This demonstration of the new aëroplane was succeeding beyond Motor Matt's wildest dreams.
He knows it will take me some time to get the aëroplane fixed, and while I'm doing that he'll be moving Mrs. Traquair from the homestead to some other place.
Would the new aëroplane be easy or difficult to learn?
Commonly, the whole weight of aëroplane and load divided by the span, or length from tip to tip.
Aviation) Defn: A propeller screw placed in front of the supporting planes of an aëroplane instead of behind them, so that it exerts a pull instead of a push.
Aëronautics) Defn: Any system of rudders by which the pilot can exert a turning moment about each of the three rectangular axes of an aëroplane or airship.
Defn: A compact form of hydro-aëroplane having one central body, or hull.
Aëronautics) Defn: An aëroplane with three or more superposed main planes.
Tubby quickly, "or it might be an aëroplane is kept handy so's to ferry folks over dry-shod.
Aëroplane pilots are the scouts of the air these days, you understand.
It's the motor--the aëroplane man has managed to get going!
What wouldn't I give for an aëroplane to come along at this minute, and pick me up?
As they stood there on that afternoon, and watched, they finally saw the German Taube vanish in the clouds, with the leading Belgian aëroplane following suit.
These woods are a pretty good protection against shrapnel and machine-gun fire, but they're absolutely useless when it comes to screening us from aëroplane bombs.
Were such discerned, the Fokker would come plunging down upon its prey, letting go everything it had in the way of gun-fire and frequently blasting the objective aëroplane into a total wreck.
The Turks fell completely away from Lone Pine Ridge and retreated fully a mile across a shallow valley and on to another ridge where we knew from our aëroplane scouts they had another strong position.
For our aëroplane began falling with a rapidity to make you gasp for breath.
She was standing one morning on the balcony when the aëroplane came in sight, and hovered quite low down over the park, exactly opposite the hostel windows.
Another German aëroplane flew over the city today and again threw bombs.
I found that there had really been an aëroplane and that it had thrown three bombs, all of which had exploded.
It has now become almost impossible for an aëroplane to locate hostile artillery except by the flashes.
Today Paris had another visit from a German aëroplane which threw the usual three bombs.
The German bomb-dropping aëroplane arrives each day as regularly as sunset.
If the shells drop too far to the left, the aëroplane turns to the right and the distance in profile that it travels before straightening out is the correction.
Moreover, there are usually two officers in an aëroplane and the systems of double control enable the aëroplane to return to its base even if one of them is killed outright.
The din was extraordinary, but the German aëroplane went serenely on as if utterly unconscious of the thousands of shots of which it was the target.
When the first German aëroplane threw bombs at Paris, a wave of indignation and protestation swept over the city.
Early this afternoon it was reported at the Embassy that a German aëroplane had flown over Paris and had dropped several bombs, one of which had fallen near the St. Lazare Hospital.
It is now the fourth day that a German aëroplane has passed over the French armies, eluded the French machines, and braved a murderous fire from the waiting guns of Paris.
In two days' time the aëroplane was as good as new.
Matt, McGlory, and Haidee, on account of the wings of the aëroplane being turned lengthwise of the street, rode facing the sidewalk on the left.
To drop the blazing aëroplane into that sea of heads below meant injury to some of the spectators.
When the elephants began to move, Matt switched the power into the bicycle wheels, and the aëroplane lurched over the uneven ground.
So great was the slant of the aëroplane that she seemed to fall forward.
Matt, being busy with the aëroplane and the motor, did not discover it until too late.
The next instant the big aëroplane took a wild jump forward.
Cheer after cheer greeted the aëroplane and the king of the motor boys as soon as the crowded thoroughfares were reached.
The aëroplane was at rest on the hard roadway running across the show grounds.
He looked well, too, in his unostentatious blue cap and clothes, and was given many a cheer as the aëroplane pitched and shivered along in the procession.
Would she want to burn the aëroplane and drop herself and me plump into the show grounds?
Flying in an aëroplane is vastly more difficult than sailing in a balloon.
The parade was finished without further incident worthy of note, a huge crowd following it back to the show grounds to see the aëroplane flight.
The next moment the blazing aëroplane settled into the road and glided along on the bicycle wheels.
And you gave her something to be used in setting the aëroplane afire?
I've figured out that my scheme is to hang around the Exhibition and see the aëroplane man do his stunts every afternoon; but I'd rather be in camp any day.
The aëroplane exhibition had passed off successfully, and as usual it gave considerable satisfaction, because everybody was showing great interest in the modern methods of harnessing the air currents to the use of mankind.
Consider now an aëroplane at an elevation of 6,000 feet and remember that the new Zeppelins have gone thousands of feet higher.
It was the first aëroplane ever seen in the remote Pennsylvanian hamlet, and it created commensurate excitement.
Down shot the broken aëroplane with the velocity of lightning.
The ram was seated in the aëroplane for all the world as if he was a scientific investigator of some sort.
Jimsy, as a shouting, excited crowd surrounded the aëroplane in which Peggy still sat, feeling dazed and a little dizzy.
The Aëroplane Boys Among the Clouds; or, Young Aviators in a Wreck 4.
I guess the men who took the aëroplane must have been pretty familiar with the place though," opined Jimsy.
The Aëroplane Boys on the Wing; or, Aëroplane Chums in the Tropics 3.
From the forward part of the aëroplane a wisp of smoke had suddenly curled upward.
A freak of the wind caught the blazing aëroplane as it fell and drove it right over one of these small bodies of water.
The trail of the aëroplane was not difficult to follow.
The Aëroplane Boys' Flights; or, A Hydroplane Round-up 5.
Left to itself the aëroplane "yawed" wildly, like a craft without a rudder.
Since we last met Jess and Jimsy their father had allowed them to purchase an aëroplane known as the White Flier.
Teddy turned from the instrument and went out to where the aëroplane had been rolled from its shed.
A big motor truck had already backed up at the wide door of the aëroplane shed, and as fast as the parts were packed they were loaded on it.
Teddy ducked his head as the aëroplane shot madly through a huge globe of blazing gas in mid-air.
Have you had an aëroplane fly above it to make sure?
Teddy and Davis, in the biplane, sped after it at the topmost speed of which their aëroplane was capable.
As he spoke the men on the boat shot up the little fire balls that had protected the aëroplane in its former fight.
Half a dozen men were holding the aëroplane back, and the small shed was full of clouds of choking dust and still more choking fumes from the motor.
It was not the rasping roar of an aëroplane motor, but a deep, truly melodious note that seemed to grow rapidly in volume.
The aëroplane roared through hell-fire for a moment.
The Germans are planning an aëroplane raid on the English," said the man, in a low voice.
That," said Chester calmly, "is an aëroplane station.
Let her go, then," the commandant ordered the two men who had appeared to give the aëroplane a start.
Now Hal touched the elevating lever, and the aëroplane left the ground, and, soaring high in the air, sped on its way.
You have won the test on every point, and the sale of the aëroplane to the government is assured.
I can stay aloft three hours just as well as two, and I think you will see the aëroplane do fifty miles instead of thirty.
Matt, the wrathful broker reasoned, was to fly the aëroplane at the forthcoming government trial.
In less than a dozen feet, the aëroplane was traveling too fast for Cameron and McGlory, and they dropped out.
It was a situation of the gravest peril, but Matt could not go away and leave the aëroplane to be wrecked.
From this on, Motor Matt, you and your friends and the Traquair aëroplane are under the protecting wing of Uncle Sam.
Matt unbuckled the straps, and lifted the model of the aëroplane out of its case.
A frenzy of cheering arose from the bluffs and Camp Traquair as the aëroplane darted over them on her way to Minnewaukon.
Those that remained in the place assembled on the streets or on the roof tops, and cheered wildly as the aëroplane veered in a circle and rushed back toward Totten.
According to conditions governing the aëroplane trial, you've got to stay in the air two hours, make not less than thirty miles an hour, and carry a passenger.
By a coincidence, I'm here to watch the trials of the aëroplane for the government.
I got these clippings from a clipping bureau in the East, and ever since I found this aëroplane on my hands I've been trying to locate you.
Matt, in the driver's seat, came very near taking a fly in spite of himself, for the wings caught the wind and lifted the aëroplane some four feet in the air.
That other man was an enemy of Traquair's, and the fellow didn't want the aëroplane to stand the test she faced to-day.
It was just the right bottom to give the aëroplane a good start on the bicycle wheels.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "roplane" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
