| However, despite some water coming into the boat, I think he rode the rough waters pretty well and got us back on terra firma safely. |
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| Seven days later he crash-landed on terra firma with the same pilot, and they reached an amicable agreement never to fly together again. |
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| There is something for everyone at this year's Biggin Hill International Air Fair, even those who prefer staying on terra firma. |
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| On terra firma the young albatross is hopelessly clumsy, but once gliding, it's poetry on the wind. |
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| In the darkness, however, the crew, and pilots, did not know how secure it was and they scrambled off the boat for the safety of terra firma. |
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| It all began with a swampy piece of land at the top of Liardet St, which was drained and filled to become terra firma. |
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| Illustrated with pictures from space as well as a few taken on terra firma it deals with all aspects of weather both devastating and wonderful. |
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| A world record holding hydroplane which for more than a decade has idled on terra firma in a South Lakeland museum is to take to the water again. |
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| What makes apparently sane people leave the comfort of terra firma to fly, to glide, to fall, to swoop or to jump out of planes at 12,000 feet? |
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| As he and Luke came in for a perfect cornfield landing, I ran over to welcome them back to terra firma. |
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| I now know how the ancient mariners must have felt seeing the signs of terra firma after a long voyage. |
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| It was when I met my wife, Maryse, that I decided to remain on terra firma. |
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| It was an extra specially good feeling to have terra firma under my feet. |
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| A Furness pilot is relishing the feel of terra firma after he took to the skies for 11 days in order to bring home a new aircraft for his skydiving school. |
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| Time it right to miss the queues and just minutes after leaving terra firma you are 102 floors up in the open air with executive helicopters passing underneath you. |
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| Less than two years after buying EMI, Hands' investors forced him to resign as CEO of terra firma over anger at their losses. |
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| A fidelity to the spontaneous moment is no longer the terra firma on which the photographic image is grounded. |
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| Only in the terra firma villages is fishing less important as they have limited access to fisheries. |
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| It's one thing to use superconductors for trains here on terra firma, but what about using them in outer space? |
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| Equally happy on terra firma or in the water, Poitevins are regarded by many as the most handsome pack hounds. |
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| Crisis-hit automotive giant General Motors hopes its Puma mini-car will enable it to get back onto terra firma. |
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| My mother kept me at it, even though she would have preferred to have on terra firma rather than out at sea. |
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| Presentation of the Antarctic ice shelf, formation and surface area compared with terra firma. |
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| If you are overcome by the desire to leave terra firma, everything you need is on hand. |
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| Well that puts the friendship between Denmark and Bavaria back on terra firma. |
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| With the use of a winch and a small farm tractor or other large vehicle, the tower can be safely lowered to the ground and wind plant checks can be performed on terra firma. |
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| A watch set to make waves, even on terra firma! |
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| Only an island of terra firma forest divided by the Likouala-aux-Herbes River, and small patches of terra firma on which villages are located, do not flood. |
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| After making their way back down hundreds of steps to terra firma, Memet and Fazin, two young Turks who have travelled from Frankfurt to be here, explained to FIFA.com why they are so confident about their side's chances. |
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| Suddenly, the serene calm of the sea was broken by the excited hubbub of terra firma, caused moreover by something spotted by every driver leaving the ferry. |
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| The more a wheel can travel, or flex, the better it can maintain contact with terra firma and provide the traction needed to cross an array of obstacles. |
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| As the ball cooled and solidified over hundreds of millions of years, massive volcanic eruptions, fed by upwelling hot material, created terra firma, forming the continents and the surrounding oceans. |
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| It consists primarily of swamp forest with inclusions of riparian forest and mixed-species lowland forest on terra firma islands and savannah patches. |
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| As I approach my fifty-fifth year on this terra firma, I have come to accept the singleness which God has called me to, even to see it as a cross I must bear. |
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| Also, if you preferred to be buried in your 1924 Stutz Bearcat and you left nothing in writing, chances are you would end up in plain old terra firma. |
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| Kyrghyz literature is celebrated in the Western world as Chingiz Aitmatov's terra firma, but the time-honored tradition of Kyrghyz poetry is term incognita. |
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| Matt Neal will happily have his feet back on terra firma when he trades the thrills of wind power for brake horsepower at Snetterton this weekend. |
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