"We'll cut some of the guy wires from the planes and rudders.
No flicker of emotion crossed the harsh planes of the other man's face.
He had to make a quick descent--so rapid was it, in fact, that the tips of one of his planes was smashed.
By means of the planes and rudders a perfect landing was made in the meadow, a short distance from where the start had been made.
After a trial rise by means of the gas, I'm going to lower the ship to the ground, and try for an elevation by means of the planes.
Over the ground ran the dainty, little aeroplane, until, having momentum enough, Tom tilted the wing planes and the machine sailed up into the air.
The little craft dipped toward the ground, but the lad threw up the forward planes, and caught a current of air that sent him skimming along horizontally.
The same pressure which has caused the rock to cleave has set free some of its mineral constituents along the cleavage planes to crystallize there as mica.
Up into the air shot the nose of the Red Cloud as the wind struck the slanting surface of the planes, and, a moment later it was sailing high above the heads of the throng.
If I accept his offer it will at least be the means of assuring your safe return to civilization and that" he added, "is worth more to me than all the planes in the British Air Service."