The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 74National Geographic Society, 1938 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 126
... pilot can shuttle back and forth in the upcurrent of wind over a mountain al- most indefinitely , as long as the wind holds out . As one prominent pilot put it to me , " It's like glorified flagpole sitting . " The real test comes when ...
... pilot can shuttle back and forth in the upcurrent of wind over a mountain al- most indefinitely , as long as the wind holds out . As one prominent pilot put it to me , " It's like glorified flagpole sitting . " The real test comes when ...
Page 132
... pilot . thirty or forty feet from the ground and go up until nearly out of sight without once flapping its wings , " said one seasoned pilot , admiringly . The soaring pilot gets an excellent chance to study the birds ' flight habits ...
... pilot . thirty or forty feet from the ground and go up until nearly out of sight without once flapping its wings , " said one seasoned pilot , admiringly . The soaring pilot gets an excellent chance to study the birds ' flight habits ...
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... pilot lets himself be sucked into the midst of it , for the inside of a hard thunder- storm is a raging combination of about the most violent things in Nature : fearsome gusts , pelting hail , fierce bolts of lightning . One sailplane ...
... pilot lets himself be sucked into the midst of it , for the inside of a hard thunder- storm is a raging combination of about the most violent things in Nature : fearsome gusts , pelting hail , fierce bolts of lightning . One sailplane ...
Contents
A Motor Caravan Rolls Across Sahara and Jungle Through Realms | 327 |
Wild Tribesmen With Topknots Roam the Little | 391 |
Marine Fishes and Fisheries Yield Vast Wealth from Alaska | 463 |
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