The human cannonball lands on a horizontal net or inflated bag, the placement of which is determined by classical mechanics.
The inflated bags were primarily to support a light frame-work of branches on which he had tied a fully-loaded air rifle, a machete, and his combat knife.
"Yes, I hope you do see them," murmured Tom, as he pulled the lever which would pump the gas from the inflated bag, and compress it into tanks, until it was needed again to make the ship rise.
He was kneeling beside one of Bellis's tunneled pots, hugging a kind of bag against his chest, an inflated bag as big as a small woman.
The drugs could be in an inflated waterproof bag.
I can see it now as I did then, from the lofty top of the building--that inflated bag drifting along the air, and that tiny speck of a man clinging on beneath.
"Because she's a cactus and I'm an inflated bag of pride and consequence, and I'm afraid to get close enough to find out."
Ile alien lay in its inflated bag in the bottom of the boat, and it waited.
They rolled the eighteen-foot grid out of the minemouth, moving it on those inflated bags which are so much better than rollers for rough terrain.
Other objects appeared, globular translucent things in the water, and as the whole improbable apparition neared shore, they looked like inflated bags bobbing in the water at the edges of the dark line of land.
