Take a nosedive, Tom, and leave it to me to manage the gun!"

Having satisfied yourself that all these things are as they should be in the best of all possible aeroplanes, that the joy-stick works as smoothly as a beer-pull, and that the under-carriage has the necessary wheels, axles and other things that under-carriages are licensed to carry, little remains but to pay for the machine and make a nosedive for home.

Next moment she lurched again, and then took a "nosedive" straight into the British trenches.