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Updated: May 8, 2025
By tea-time we were properly installed; and indeed the Australian colonel and his adjutant remained as our guests at dinner. The mess, cut out of the side of the trench and lined with corrugated iron, possessed an ingeniously manufactured door part of a drum-tight wing of a French aeroplane.
"You can see for yourself." "Or, rather, you can't see," spoke the youth. "It isn't here, that's sure. You can't stick an aeroplane, even as small a one as my Humming Bird, in a corner. No; it isn't here." "Well, we'll have to look further," went on Mr. Damon. "I think " But a sudden noise near the big main doors of the shed interrupted him. "Come on!" exclaimed Tom in a whisper.
Artillery and aeroplane activity was extremely lively during this period. Not a day passed without artillery duels at many scattered points along the entire front from the Swiss border down to the Adriatic. Aeroplane squadrons of considerable force paid continuously visits to the opposing lines, dropping bombs on lines of communication and railway stations.
"Tenez! up! up! Ah ça! A clean shave, mister, hein?" A touch on the lever had sent the aeroplane soaring aloft at a steep angle, and she cleared by little more than a hair's breadth the edge of a thick plantation of firs. "A close shave, as you say, Roddy," came the answer. And then the speaker let forth a gust of wrathful language which his companion heard in sympathetic silence.
One life for a number of lives the sacrifice of a single aeroplane for a costly dirigible that was an exchange in favor of the Browns. And Etzel had taken an oath in his heart not standing on a café table that he would never let any dirigible that he attacked escape. "Into it! Making sure! Oh, splen O!" cried the artillery commander. A ball of lightning shot forth sheets of flame.
When they saw the strange visitant from the sky descending upon them, they gave utterance to shrill cries of alarm, dropped their burdens, and fled in hot haste up the shore, disappearing behind the huts. As he alighted, Smith noticed, close to the aeroplane, one of these packages, which had burst open in the fall, and saw with surprise that it contained rifles.
Then he returned at full speed, brought the aeroplane to the ground within the enclosure, and having arranged with his brother to give the signal when the gunboat came in sight, lay down beside Rodier and was fast asleep in an instant.
Tom read this twice and out of its scrappiness and incompleteness he gathered this much! that somebody who was about to be dismissed from an aeroplane factory for the very usual reason that he could not stand the terrific noise, had succeeded in either making or procuring plans of Uncle Sam's new aeroplane engine, the Liberty Motor.
I only wish I could get hold of some of the better kind of metal." The magneto of an aeroplane performs a service similar to one in an automobile. It provides the spark that explodes the charge of gas in the cylinders, and platinum is a metal, more valuable now than gold, much used in the delicate parts of the magneto. "Well, I guess it's walk for ours," said Ned ruefully.
Even during his previous life two lines of investigation had pointed clearly to two distinct types of contrivance as possible, and both of these had been realised. On the one hand was the great engine-driven aeroplane, a double row of horizontal floats with a big aerial screw behind, and on the other the nimbler aeropile.
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