Henry Farman attached wooden skids to the bottom of his airplane and fastened wheels to them by means of heavy rubber bands.
When a descent was made, the force of contact with the ground sent the wheels flying upward on their flexible bands, and allowed the strong skids to absorb the shock.
It carried no wheels--merely skids for landing--and so to gain initial momentum it had to be placed on a small trolley which ran down a rail.
Thus he could start his motor and run over the ground until his speed permitted him to rise, while in making a descent the wheels flew back on their flexible bands and the stout skids absorbed the shock of the fall.
Two long skids connected up to fuselage by metal struts.
Mounted on 2 wheels and 2 skids with smaller wheels attached at the forward end.
The original type of Wright machine was mounted on skids only, and started along a rail.
When the walls are so high that it is a difficult task to lift the logs in position, put up a couple of skids and roll the logs up the incline, which is better than wasting your strength in trying to lift such burdens.
To facilitate rolling the logs as you need them, arrange some skids close by the site of the house, and allow them to slant toward the proposed cabin.
Because of the nature of the product, skids and power trucks had been chosen as the equipment best suited for the job.
Others say that some of theskids of Tainui were left at South Manukau Heads.
Here are the skids laid to the sea, And drops the moisture now from Marama, Caused by the gentle breeze Which blows down from Wai-hi; But still Tainui stays, And will not move.
The Tokomaru was the first to be taken across, and under the guidance of the chiefs she glided with perfect ease and grace over the carefully laid skids into the deep, smooth water.
Inside were a lot of lifters and skids and power shovels and things; laborers were assembling for work assignments.
There were stacks of them, in all sizes, loaded on skids and ready to move out.
By this time, gangs were at work there, too, moving contragravity skids in empty and out loaded.
There were inside-use vehicles in the big room; they loaded what they had with them onto a couple of freight-skids and piled on, starting down a passage toward the center of the building.
When free of the skids take them up and lay them in front of the beams, repeating this operation until the boat is at the distance desired.
Pull the boat out to the end of the skids, and if it is desirable to get it farther away from the water, lay beams in front of the skids and pull the boat on them.
The trail led downhill just there, and man and oxen went down the slope furiously in the attempt to keep ahead of the big log that jolted over the skids behind them.
The skids screamed beneath it, the snow flew up like smoke, and then there was a thunderous crash and stillness again.
They came from an opening between the pines, and rushed along the rude trail, which had a few skids across it.
Tell me more about her, however, before I begin making skidsand skid grease.
The thing to do is to put the skids under Joey and his lady love before they know you know it.
All the wooden parts, such as skids and levers and propellers, long since vanished and gone, he had cleverly rebuilt.
From her landing-skids to the farthest tip of her ailerons she seemed alive, instinct with conscious and eager intelligence.
The junction of this bridle with the two cables from the skids forms the mooring point and there the main trail rope is attached.
The landing chassis were altered, single skids being substituted for the wider landing chassis employed in the seaplane.
The planes are attached to the envelope by means of skids and stay wires.
When the oxen were started the log slid up the skids to the loose rafters N, O, P and when once up there it was easily shoved and fitted into place.
Selecting Bark To get the birch bark, select a tree with a smooth trunk devoid of branches and, placing skids for the trunk to fall upon (Fig.
Weight on skids with steam engine and boiler (approx.
As each block was molded it was carried on the working plate and set down on skids properly spaced to fit the marks on the plate.
This is an important detail and Mr. Palmer comments on it as follows: "The writer saw inexperienced men careless about it and who would break the backs of many blocks by not having the skids properly placed.
At the culvert site they were unloaded and put in by an ordinary section gang with no appliances other than skids to remove the pipes from the cars.
In removing the green block from the skids let there be cones of sand between the rows of blocks and up-end each working plate so as to let the end of the block come upon the sand cushion.
The men unsling the ammunition-pouches, and pass them into the boat, which is to be brought to a convenient distance from the beach, and the skids laid and secured.
When down off the skids and on the bottom, the drag-rope is hooked around the axle, and the howitzer run up on the beach.
When the howitzer is in the boat, the skids are unhooked and put in the boat by Nos.
The gun should be fired on skids or a proving-carriage, to test the trunnions.
Guns received at Navy Yards are to be carefully placed on the ranges of masonry, capped with iron skids or bars.
We were in a semi-covered sled with narrow runner, but with safety skids to prevent it from completely capsizing.
The safety skidscould not save us, but made the angle of our overturn more complete.
Under Ray's consumately skilful piloting, the skids struck the snow with hardly a shock.
We warmed and started the engine, broke the skids loose from the ice, turned the plane around, and took off safely from the tiny scrap of smooth ice.
He also kept his command well caulked, and saw the chocks and skids secure when his boat was hoisted to the deck.
Moreover, if the wheels were very large, and the ship were heeled over, the wheel rims would grind the ship's side continually, unless large skids were fitted to them.
That part of the open skids between the main and fore drifts in men-of-war.
Skids over the bowsprit from the beak-head in some ships, to enable men to run out upon the bowsprit.
The caissons were all cast standing on parallel skids at about mean high water.
It was first intended to construct a small marine railroad and launch the caissons in that manner, rolling them along the skids to the head of the marine railway.
When he found a couple of cypress trees that he thought would answer the purpose, over on Bird Island, as they had named the place of the roost, he cut them down, and by hard work they towed the intended skids to camp.
And Jack continued to encourage his mates to do their level best until they had dragged the Comfort up the skids to a point where one could crawl underneath her exposed keel.
We'll have to make a couple of skids tomorrow, and get a purchase on some of the mangroves yonder; when we can yank her up, no matter where she is.
Accordingly, after he had cleaned off his pannikin, and not a second sooner, Nick hunted up the rope and blocks with which they had hauled the Comfort out on skids at the time of her accident.
The early Wright machines were launched on rails, and alighted on skids attached to the machine like the skids of a sledge.
Nevertheless, he improved his aeroplane, stabilizing it by means of a long tail, and fitting it with wheels for landing, in place of the skids which were used by the Wrights.
Now and then they fixed the tackle to a tree and dragged the log across short skids thrust under its end, and at length launched it from the brow of the steeper pitch.
Festing seized a handspike and the skids groaned as the big log began to move.
A few minutes later, he reached the top of the skids and sat down on the log, breathing fast and feeling badly shaken.
A man stood on theskids about half way down and presently waved his arm.
Half a mile beyond that, beside the first donkey shuddering on its anchored skids as it tore an eighteen-inch cedar out by the roots, they came on Lefty Howe.
Benton followed, and again the donkey shuddered on its foundationskids till another log laid in the chute, with its end butted against that which lay before.
Upon the platform built over the skids were piled the tools of the crew, sawed blocks for the fire box, axes, saws, grindstones, all that was necessary in their task.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skids" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
