balsa
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The plane they built in a hangar in the desert was propeller-driven and resembled a child’s balsa wood glider, but with wings longer than those of a Boeing 727.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2024
Mindy, who takes to a balsa Hobie as easily as Carol once did, has bigger plans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2023
The roomy interior was cooled by dry ice, with a single headlamp and a crush zone of balsa wood installed in front.
From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2022
He laid out the physics hurdles of such an epic voyage and even crafted a prototype spacecraft from poster board, balsa wood, and Elmer’s glue.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 27, 2022
I carved the model out of balsa wood, and painted it in red and white racing colors.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
According to Peruvian tradition, the Inca Tupac Yupanqui sailed a large fleet of balsas into the Pacific, about 1470 A.D.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were taking many of the same chances as their theoretical primitives: the raft was modeled after the balsas of the ancient Peruvians.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Mojaves, whose village was five miles above La Paz, came down on freshly made balsas every day, but walked home, carrying their paddles.
From Captured by the Navajos by Charles A. (Charles Albert) Curtis
The balsas cannot beat to windward, but behave very well in shallow water with a favoring breeze.
From Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru by Hiram Bingham
Numerous rivers flow into it; in some places it is very deep, but in others so shallow that there is only just room to force the balsas through the rushes.
From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston
