What is "volplaned"

Usage examples of "volplaned".

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

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

He climbed, swooped, spiraled, volplaned, and rose again, executing a series of evolutions that would have won him fame at any aero meet.

Toward the end of the descent he stopped the engine and volplaned, or coasted, to the ground, landing gently in front of his hangar.

I didn't have much to locate you by other than the general direction, but it seems that you volplaned a considerable distance toward the south after you disappeared from my view behind the hills.

I didn't have much to locate you by other than the general direction, but it seems that you volplaned a considerable dis tance toward the south after you disappeared from my view behind the hills.

But the reason I volplaned over the fence was so I could have a talk with you about the Hoppers.