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  • Above and below the viewplate were the pointers and the swinging needles which indicated the speed and angle of vertical movement, the altimeter, the directional compass, and the horizontal speed and distance indicators.

    The Airlords of Han Philip Francis Nowlan 1914

  • An optical counter flashed the range numbers at him from the upper edge of the viewplate.

    Pigeons Having Sex On An Air Conditioner In New York 2010

  • The two OBS men did a war dance of their own as a trail of penciled flame swept across the viewplate and off into space.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Johnny Pez 2009

  • The two OBS men did a war dance of their own as a trail of penciled flame swept across the viewplate and off into space.

    "Neutral Vessel" by Harl Vincent, part 5 Johnny Pez 2009

  • The image on her viewplate wavered a moment and then reappeared, greatly enlarged.

    A Time to Hate Robert Greenberger 2004

  • The large room they entered had a plasglas viewplate from floor to ceiling directly aligned with the escape pod, a hundred metres below, but optically the gloss was altered to produce a tri-d effect that made the observer feel he was no more than a few feet from the pod.

    Damia's Children McCaffrey, Anne 1993

  • The Patch felt the tears blur his vision, and he looked out of the forward viewplate at the bright dot in the black of space that would soon expand to become the City of Bamboo.

    City of Baraboo Longyear, Barry 1980

  • She wasn't looking at the dreary landscape, but at the information that appeared projected in ghost images onto her viewplate:

    Mindbridge Haldeman, Joe 1976

  • The viewplate of his helmet was so dirty that his bearded face was difficult to see.

    Secret Mission Moluk Voltz, William 1975

  • The arm belonged to Weiss, whose face looked grimly tense beneath the viewplate.

    Secret Mission Moluk Voltz, William 1975

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