volplane in English
verb
1
(of an airplane) make a controlled dive or downward flight, especially with the engine shut off.
Then he shut off the motor and volplaned to earth, to the no small astonishment of the surgeon.
noun
1
a controlled dive or downward flight at a steep angle, especially by an airplane with the engine shut off.
In 1891 the engineer Otto Lilienthal executed the first safe and repeatable volplanes in history.
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