While these pioneers created the ‘same thing’ – the airplane – each created it differently: by coining and popularizing its name, flying with a catapult, flying without a catapult, or having one's flights validated. As knowledge is not translated from one language into another, but rather...
Most notably, he undertook a career as a commercial pilot for Astraeus Airlines, which led to a number of media-reported ventures such as captaining Iron Maiden's converted charter aeroplane, Ed Force One, during their world tours. Following Astraeus' closure, he created his own aircraft ...
As for the smashed aeroplane, telegrams would be sent at once to Sir Rupert's engineers at Chesilbury, and they would have all that cleared away by mid-day to-morrow... The doctor departed; Sir Rupert, after stimulants,-124- closed his eyes, and Mr. Trafford seated himself at the te...
Cecille stood frozen for a second to see if this machine would catch fire. But it only lay crushed on its side like a coffee-colored bird knocked from the sky by a kestrel. The pilot’s head move and she ran toward the aeroplane, unsure why, with her mother screaming after her. As ...
One night, a second enemy aeroplane, following, unnoticed, aimed a bomb at the source of the beam. The generator and searchlight were untouched, despite the deafening explosion. The cable had been cut – the searchlight was out of action for a few hours – but there was no loss of life...
Puren describes in this book his technique of dropping bombs through a hole in the floor of a Dove aeroplane, by means of a rack system rigged along the fuselage. The racks were fitted to take bombs of 12.5 kg, which were despatched one at a time through the hatch in the floor when ...
10. The Wright Brothers – Inventors of the aeroplane Orville and Wilbur Wright managed to invent, build and fly the world’s first successful airplane without formally graduating from high school. 11. Thomas Edison – Inventor of the light bulb and more ...
She won the highest trophy when she was in country music and got one again when she created a pop album. 12 // We Never Go Out of Style Without mentioning how artistic the clip is, Style never fails to lift my mood up in the morning. It is such a perfect sophisticated song ...
So, when I sat down to write Hypothetical Lizard, yes, it was to some degree restrained by the pre-created world that Emma Bull and Will Shetterly had put together for this anthology, but I wanted to talk about things that were as far away from Conan or The Lord of the Rings as I ...
(文化透镜). If he comes from a more sociable environment, for instance, and notices that his Japanese colleagues are very___in a meeting, he may think that they are being unfriendly or bored. A person at the top of the scale,___, might realize that silence is a sign of respect and...