What is "volplane"

Usage examples of "volplane".

When halfway down, either through a freak of fortune or some wonderfully clever manipulation on the part of the pilot, the machine righted, and he was enabled to volplane to safety, though considerably bruised and cut up through hasty landing.

Tom soon shut the motor off, and tilted the machine for a volplane down several thousand feet to a new level.

How about the wings of the airplane standing the strain when Tom suddenly brought that volplane to a stop and tried to sail on an even keel again?

Next he shut it off completely, and prepared to volplane back to earth.

Tom shut off his own motor and let the Hawk glide on her downward way in a volplane to earth, the great, ponderous tank came to a stop, on the very edge of the precipice at the foot of which rolled the river.

The other airship, caught by the grappling anchor at the end of a long rope, was just settling down, those in her having the good sense to shut off their power, and volplane when they found that they could not escape.

If it becomes necessary to give to the infantry some special information not provided for by the prearranged signals, the aviator will volplane down to within a hundred feet above the infantry and drop a written message.

We had gone to the wreck and secured them, had rigged this little volplane flyer.

Alfred shut off the engines and allowed her to volplane toward the sea.

Would it last until the storm had passed, or would they be obliged to volplane down into that seething tempest?

We could not continue, any more than the other fellow, and would have to volplane to the ground.

John shut off both engines, and they began to volplane down in a great stillness, sailing like an immense hawk.

Once he shut off the engines and volplaned down a thousand feet or more.

Others in long slants volplaned toward the hidden sea, miles below the cloud-plain.

Then he shut off the motor and volplaned to earth, to the no small astonishment of the surgeon.