Why this word is great
VOLPLANE — [Noun, Verb] A steep, controlled dive, especially by an aircraft with the engine off; to perform such a dive or to glide. From French vol plané ("gliding flight"), from vol ("flight") and plané ("glided"). Unlike "glide" (which suggests serene, horizontal drift) or "dive" (which evokes reckless velocity), "volplane" is the art of falling with precision. It is the silent arc of a barn owl descending onto prey, the deliberate surrender of a paper airplane caught in a draft, or the way a leaf spirals from branch to earth—not a surrender to gravity, but a negotiation with it. A reminder that control need not always mean resistance.