Water injection has been proven to use the waste heat that causes a pulse jet to glow red hot and convert it into thrust.
The pilot slammed the powerful jets into reverse thrust, bringing the giant plane to a halt just before he ran out of runway.
Sometime later, Brady winced as the jet engines went into reverse thrust.
A propeller is a device that converts rotational motion into thrust.
Doubtless the pilot's dying convulsions had jammed the controls into full thrust.
At the last instant T seemed to abandon balance and put all his efforts into thrust.
He found his earlier estimates to be verified; powder rockets were converting only about 2 percent of their fuel into thrust.
As the shield-arm facing him drooped, he feinted a low cut, turned it into sudden short thrust.
The pilot pulled the props into reverse thrust and, when the plane had slowed, turned off on the first available taxiway.
Instead, for the last fortnight, training should go into reverse thrust.