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falling leaf
falling leaf n. an aerobatic manoeuvre in which an aeroplane is repeatedly stalled and side-slipped while losing height, causing it to move in a to-and-fro swaying motion similar to that of a leaf falling.In quot. 1957 in extended use with reference to bird flight.
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society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > aerobatics > [noun] > stunt > specific
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1915 Logansport (Indiana) Jrnl.-Tribune 27 May 2/4 The most dangerous part of his exhibition is said to be the ‘Leaf Drop’ which resembles a huge leaf falling from a tree. In this the public look on in horror as they see the machine turn over and over in its mad rush toward the earth.]
1917 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 1 Aug. 5/2 Brown's aerial stunts... Flutter or falling leaf dive.
1918 La Crosse (Wisconsin) Tribune & Leader-Press 3 Feb. 5/2 I turned on one wing, did the ‘falling leaf’ for a drop of five hundred meters, and climbed up another thousand a little farther on.
1957 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles VI. 314 When performed at the lower altitudes the technique is often the individual ‘falling-leaf’, but at higher altitudes the birds rush downwards together and the formation is not broken.
1970 H. Krier Mod. Aerobatics & Precision Flying ii. 56 The falling leaf is a series of checked spins, in which the airplane is allowed to fall off first to the right and then to the left, or vice versa.
2011 J. Sherman Walking on Air i. 8 The falling leaf required the aircraft to be stalled and forced into a spin.
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