He had reached the runway by a route known only to himself.
On signal from the tower, the big workhorse thundered down the runway and soared off into the blue.
Minutes later, after a parting handshake from his father and a worried kiss from Sandy, Tom sent the sleek jet racing down the runway for take-off.
And when he looked toward the west side Dawson saw that the runway pointed straight at a wide opening between two of the ringing hills.
The first plane in line was poised at the end of a runway that cut straight through the middle of the huge disc-shaped airdrome in an east to west direction.
They've removed the camouflage covering from the place, and that light is from runway flares, and maybe exhaust plumes.
At length it came to a halt, where it crossed a well-marked runway of her own.
One day, as he was lying in wait in a clump of weeds for a rabbit which he had some reason to expect in the runway before him, he saw a big raccoon go running by on her toes, her big, dark, inquisitive eyes peering into every shadowy place.
The snow was trampled and disturbed at this point, and just here, where the runway was narrowed by a thick bush on either side, lay the frozen head and neck of a chicken.
The landing lights along the runway were off; they would be switched on only for final approach, when, guided by the radar installation, their focused beams would be invisible outside a hundred-yard perimeter of the nose cameras.
Man's hope of reaching God at will required a special creation, one that could taxi off a runway just like a normal aircraft, then accelerate to hypersonic speeds, reaching low-earth orbit.
If he couldn't get this damned samolyot off a runway manually, he had no hopes for the next step.
His jet had touched down on the facility's runwayat 6:48 A.
In fact, this plane is virtually weather-proof, since it leaves from a runwayjust like a normal passenger jet.
Only the ten-thousand-meter test runway could not be concealed full-time, but it had been carefully camouflaged and was used only at night.
This is going to be tricky, so make sure everybody thinks we're merely taking Daedalus II onto the runway as a safety precaution after the explosion.
Just get the hangar doors open, the runway cleared, and the truck-mounted starters ready.
The workmen were still pecking away at the runway shoulders.
Then he saw the runway ahead and realized that it would be a race to see whether or not he got across before the plane reached that point.
At the lower end of the runway 63 is provided a laterally movable receptacle 64, which has a receiving capacity of one ball only.
At the lower end of the runway 81 is provided a laterally movable receptacle 83, which has a receiving capacity for one ball only.
Joe used three planks--that is the runway was three planks wide, and they were laid one on either side of the rail, with the middle one directly over the strip of steel.
Joe heard a shout behind him, and, almost before he knew it, he was at the end of the runwayand his front wheel was on the rail.
I can make a temporary runway of the old planks," reasoned Joe, "and guide myself to the rail with them.
Where the runway came to an end some dirt was used to make an even slope down to the rail, thus taking up the thickness of the plank.
I paused before entering it to examine the polished surface of runway and great road.
We passed through the lines to the corial standing like a great shell at the end of the runway leading into the green road.
We turned abruptly and swept up a runway through one of the gardens, and stopped softly before a pillared pavilion.
But with a lion-like bound Conan left the bridge and hit like a cat on his feet on the runway between the benches.
They were all negroes, forty men to each side, each confined by a chain locked about his waist, with the other end welded to a heavy ring set deep in the solid runway beam that ran between the benches from stem to stern.
As he passed through the great hall and disappeared down the runway which led to the pump-room, I stole stealthily from my hiding place and crossed to the great door, the inner of the three which stood between me and liberty.
Presently I came upon a spiral runway leading to a lower floor, and this I followed downward for several stories until I reached the doorway of a large apartment in which were a number of guardsmen.
Tal Hajus arose, and I, half fearing, half anticipating his intentions, hurried to the winding runway which led to the floors below.
Always he was frantic at thought of the time that was slipping past--until, at last, the narrow passage that they followed cut transversely through another large runway that glowed faintly from some distant light.
The keeper stood almost over the runway with only the rapidly heating sheet-iron between himself and the liquid-metal puddle beneath.
I dumped the wheelbarrow, and went after more, bounced it over tracks and a hose, and up and down a little board runway to where the mud-box stands.
It rose in therunway with bubbles and smoke on top.
Garshaski starting down the pier carrying the Princes Skeep Hup in his arms crossing a sort of runway or gang plank which connected the pier with the house.
The next instant part of therunway flew up, closing the doorway, while Harry and Alice looked on.
Harry and Alice were now on the side platform separated from the runway by considerable space.
A few minutes later, the car pulled into the flying field at the nearby community and drove directly to the military transport plane that stood at the end of the runway with propellers turning.
They plopped him into a seat directly in front of Miss Abercrombie and with a roar, the plane raced down the runway and into the night skies.
A Runway Girl whose husband-lover broke jail, so to speak, for her, had professional assets that could not be gainsaid.
He had married a Runway Girl of the Bearcat Follies .
The Runway Girl, in need of publicity, had telegraphed the details to her press agent, following receipt of her husband's letter telling of his exploit.
The fact was that the big vaulted sewers had long been a runway for thieves--the Swamp Angels--who through them easily escaped when chased by the police, as well as a storehouse for their plunder.
Within the brief space of a few months the house changed character entirely, and became as decent as it had been before the convenient runway was discovered.
There is not an open door, a hidden turn or runway which they do not know, with lots of secret passages and short cuts no one else ever found.
For airports with more than one runway, only the longest runway is included.
Tis a runway where rabbits goes, and they'll go right through un without bait, and get caught.
It was Bige's hope to "scare up" a deer on the other side of the mountain and drive him down the runway past my watch ground, while it was my job to shoot him as he passed by.
The fallen tree on which I sat was on the bank of the brook and about ten feet above the water, while in the opposite direction, through an open space in the bushes, I had a clear view of the runway about twenty yards distant.
With the same heavy boards the thieves had used, a runway was made out from the sawdust to the outside incline.
A runway of heavy planks, seamy and gray, built wide enough to have driven a team of horses upon, led up to the lowest door.
They ran along the tracks of the railroad, stumbling over the ties, and stood on the railroad embankment that overlooked the runway to the mine.
The boy stood on the embankment and saw his mother running toward the runway of the mine.
The elevated trains still clatter over the frogs at the turning into Wabash Avenue; the surface cars clang their bells; the crowds pour up in the morning from the runwayleading to the Illinois Central trains; life goes on.
About the runway and along the embankment stood the silent miners, their hands in their trousers pockets, staring stolidly at the closed door of the mine.
Out along the runway from the mines came other miners--men of the day shift.
