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"I want to see how she works, and must get back to the hangars on business." The Reliance, the new hydroplane of the Interstate people, was twenty feet long and had a fuel gauge and a bilge pump. Dave got into his seat, and Hiram sat directly beside him. A touch put the machinery in motion. 'There's a puffy eighteen mile wind, Dashaway," cried out Mr. King.
I sent Native-Captain Zeerjeek and the rest of the force to re-take the supply-depot and the shops and lorry hangars, which had been taken, and relieve the military airport, which is under attack." "Good enough. I hope you didn't spread yourself out too thin. What's the situation at the commercial airport?"
Two of the big Earth companies had modern space-ship hangars there, well-lighted, well-equipped, but under their very noses was a festering welter of dark, rutted byways extending all the way to the comparative orderliness of the short, narrow Street of the Merchants, itself flanked by the drunken bedlam of the Street of the Sailors.
Laughing, talking, swapping experiences, listening in good-natured silence to the "balling out" that so often came from the harried and sweating instructors, splendid young gods were these airmen, super-heroes in an heroic age and time. In the shade of one of the hangars sat two boys. They were blind and deaf to the sights and sounds around and over them.
He was answered a moment later, for an orderly arrived with instructions to the air service boys to report at their hangars at once. There they were told something of the impending attack the first public mention of it, though more than one had guessed something unusual was in the air from the tenseness of the last few days.
She has considered the great expense for building and upkeep of each of these dirigible balloons as much as that of fifty aëroplanes the necessity of providing hangars for them, and their vulnerability to attack, as overbalancing the advantages of long range, silence as they drift with the wind with engines cut off, and ability to hover over a given spot and thus launch aërial bombs more carefully.
When a day of good weather follows a day of bad and the arrivals are frequent, planes are flopping about this aerodrome like so many penguins before they are marshaled by the busy attendants in line along the edge of the field or under the shelter of hangars.
It was a crisp, calm morning an excellent day for flying. Already the mechanicians were bringing out the machines and lining them up in front of the hangars, in preparation for the morning work, which began immediately after appel. Drew and I had received notice that we were to begin our training at once. Solicitous fellow countrymen had warned us to take with us all our flying clothes.
He had a taste for the mechanical and followed incomprehensible quests. San Francisco had known him; the big races at Cincinnati; the hangars of Mineola. He was restless Nat; but he was respectable. No one could look into his merry blue eyes and not know it. If his labors were uncertain and sporadic, and his address that of a nomad, it all sufficed, at least for himself.
Remember how that Frenchman piled up on the Farman hangars when he tried to bank the corners." "You'll find it pretty rotten when you go over the woods. The air currents there are something scandalous!" "Believe me, it's a lot worse over the fort. Rough? Oh, l
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