"Trajectory" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... projectile we get a flat trajectory, and accuracy at short ranges is increased. With a heavy projectile the resistance of the air has less effect and the projectile is ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891 • Various
... in his cartridge and altered the sights. "It's a shocking bad light for judging distance," said he. "This is where the low point-blank trajectory of the Lee-Metford comes in useful. Well, we'll try him at five hundred." He fired, but there was no change in the white ...
— A Desert Drama - Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko" • A. Conan Doyle
... The soldiers who have used it have the utmost confidence in their weapon. Up to 500 yards there is no difficulty about judging the range, as it shoots quite straight, or, technically speaking, has a flat trajectory. This is of the greatest value. Of the bullet it may be said, that its stopping power is all that could be desired. The Dum-Dum bullet, though not explosive, is expansive. The original Lee-Metford bullet was a pellet of lead covered by a nickel case with an opening ...
— The Story of the Malakand Field Force • Sir Winston S. Churchill
... sailed up, but because of the angle, their trajectory was too great, and like rays of death the lances flashed harmlessly overhead to plunge over the summit and wreak death among those ...
— Astounding Stories, March, 1931 • Various
... as his mother had gone Henri took up his pen and, continuing the article he had commenced for the Revue economique, wrote: "The trajectory of humanity is a spiral ...
— Rene Mauperin • Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt
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