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This new Kommandeur, who was to superintend the building of the machines as well as the training of the pilots, was Lieutenant General von Hoeppner, with Lieutenant Colonel Tjomsen as an assistant.
There was a lot o' quarrelling, but the bets was all settled at last, and the landlord o' the Jolly Pilots, who was in 'igh feather with the money he'd won, gave Ginger the five pounds he'd promised and took him 'ome in a cab. "You done well, my lad," he ses. "No, don't smile. It looks as though your 'ead's coming off." "I 'ope you'll tell Miss Tucker 'ow I fought," ses Ginger.
Many pilots coming out from France with brilliant records met an early and untimely end because they could not realize how very different the conditions were. I remember one poor young fellow who set off on a reconnaissance without the food and water he was required by regulations to carry. He got lost and ran out of gasolene being forced to land out in the desert.
I took her for the "Sunny South" -hadn't any skylights forward of the chimneys. And so on. This was courtesy; I supposed it was necessity. But Mr. W came on watch full twelve minutes late on this particular night, a tremendous breach of etiquette; in fact, it is the unpardonable sin among pilots. So Mr.
They're contradictory. I can't help that. All I have are the facts." The loud-speaker said crisply: "The attack on the transport plane any pilots present who were in that fight?" Someone at the back said: "Yes, sir. Here." "How good was their ship? Could it have been a guided missile?" "No, sir. No guided missile. Whoever drove that ship was right on board. And that ship was good.
Some of them thought it was Madeira, others the rock of Cintra in Portugal; the pilots said it was the coast of Spain, the Admiral thought it was the Azores; but at any rate it was land of some kind.
Beck was a man of the old school; his clientele consisted principally of night watchmen, pilots, and old seamen, who lived out in Kristianshavn. Although he was born and had grown up in Copenhagen, he was like a country shoemaker to look at, going about in canvas slippers which his daughter made for him, and in the mornings he smoked his long pipe at the house-door.
Almost a dozen planes in all were moving in a great circle, their motors lazily droning, and the pilots ready to enter into squadron formation on signal. In fact, Tom and his chum were the last to arrive, which under the circumstances was not to be wondered at. "All on deck, I reckon," called out Jack, after he had taken a survey about him. "There's the signal from the flagship, Tom.
They offered likewise to conduct our people into the harbour, where they would learn the truth of these things more fully. On consulting with the other captains, the general determined upon going into this harbour, to examine more accurately into these reports, and to procure pilots to carry them on their voyage, as they had no one in the fleet who knew the way.
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