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Before each of them glittered something silvery, like glass, which was not a screw propeller but somehow drew them on. The Council was massed two hundred yards away. A single-seater dived downward, soared and circled noiselessly fifty yards overhead, and its pilot shouted a message. Then he climbed swiftly and rejoined his fellows.
New engines are always 'stiff' and should not be run too long at a stretch." "Have you run this pair yet?" "Oh, yes," said Bob. "We have tried them out several times, dad, and in connection with the propeller, too. They work tip-top, either connected or disconnected. I tell you, when they're in connection they certainly do make this big propeller hum!"
"Now, you, McClusky," said Tam, following him and deftly strapping himself, "ye'll turn that propeller pull it down so, d'ye hear me, ye miserable chauffeur!" The man obeyed. He pulled over the propeller-blade twice, then jumped back as with a roar the engine started.
Her beams and joints groaned every time she bucked into a sea, and the wash at her freeboard and the spray breaking on the deck outside made a great racket. Her old engines jolted and jarred and vibrated every inch of the Kut Sang, and I could hear the whir of the propeller as it lifted out of the water when her head plunged into a swell.
"No; we ain't never seen dat craft yere. Dis port's more for lumber and " Mr. Heatherbloom looked down. "I saw an item in the paper" he strove to speak unconcernedly "a Marconigram that a certain Russian prince's private yacht the Nevski had damaged her propeller, or some other part of her gear, and was being towed into this harbor for emergency repairs." "Oh, yes, boss!" said the man.
Lieutenant McClure and his officers -Cleary, Binns, and Blaine -were now making an inspection of the Dewey fore and aft. As they returned amidships the boys overheard snatches of the conversation. "Propeller blades free, aren't they?" McClure was asking. "Working free and easy or else the shafts wouldn't turn," Blaine was saying.
He spoke in reassuring tones, and led my mother to the side of the ship, whither I followed them, and became at once absorbed in what was going on. The outrigger launch referred to was a goodly-sized boat, fitted with a small engine and screw propeller. Its chief peculiarities were two long poles or spars, which lay along its sides, projecting beyond the bows. These were the outriggers.
He went up and ran his fingers caressingly along the polished propeller blade that slanted toward him; he fingered the cables and touched the smooth curve of the wing as if he needed more evidence than his eyes could furnish that the Thunder Bird was there, where he had not dared hope he would find it. Bland came up with an eager, apologetic air and stood beside him.
The air and feed pumps are combined in one casting let into the engine room floor, quite out of the way, and worked by a crank pin in a small disk on the forward end of the propeller shaft. This is an admirable arrangement, and works to perfection.
After three or four hours of solo time the pupil is scheduled for another demonstration of higher maneuvers, spinning and the stall turn. For the stall turn the pilot noses the machine down to get an air speed of seventy-five miles an hour. A little bank, stick back, she rears into the air with her nose to the sky and propeller roaring. Full rudder and throttle off.
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