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Updated: June 1, 2025
"If, instead of asking me very absurd questions at the aerodrome, they had provided me with some garments calculated to exclude the salt water, I should be able to look back upon the trip with more pleasurable feelings." "Pity you had to make it, wasn't it?" Jocelyn observed, falling into step with him. "I scarcely follow you, Mr. Ought I to know your name? I have a shocking memory."
There is a case on record of an aviator who, his hands being so numbed that his fingers refused to move, found he could not switch off his motor when the time came to descend; and so he had to fly round above the aerodrome, several times, while he worked his numb fingers to and fro, and beat some life into them against his body.
"He is looking for us," said Blackie; "stand by your hangars." To the northwest two swift beams of light were sweeping the sky urgently. From a point farther south sprang another beam. "If Fritz doesn't locate us now he ought to be shot," growled Blackie. But apparently Fritz had overshot the aerodrome, for the next explosion came a mile to the west.
In an instant the motor was operating, and the craft would have leaped forward and cleaved the air but for the holding ropes and blocks. Tom speeded the machinery up to almost the last notch, but those in the aerodrome hardly heard a sound. It was as though some great, silent dynamo were working. "Fine!" "Wonderful!" "Wouldn't have believed it possible!"
Apparently nothing happened only the machine without warning buckled up and broke two thousand feet in the air, a wing dropped off and a crumpled thing, which bore no resemblance to an airplane, dropped straight as a plummet to earth. It fell less than a hundred yards from the aerodrome and Mr. Theodore Mann was dead when they pulled him from the wreckage.
Then, the flight grew lower and the circle narrower, until they were whizzing round and round us, the dry, rustling flap of their huge slate-colored wings filling the air with a volume of sound that made me think of Hendon aerodrome upon a race day. "Make for the wood and keep together," cried Lord John, clubbing his rifle. "The brutes mean mischief."
One intrepid British pilot coolly took up a position over a German aerodrome at a considerable distance within the enemy lines. There were seven machines in the aerodrome when the British flyer took up his position above, and as they issued forth first one and then two at a time he attacked and in every instance was successful in smashing or in driving out of control the German machine.
These admiring exclamations came in a perfect hailstorm as the big biplane air-craft, which had called them forth, swept earthward, bearing her two young occupants downward in a long graceful glide, and landing them at the door of their red aerodrome with the precision of an automobile being driven up to its owner's front steps.
On one occasion the latter, in attacking an aerodrome at about 50 feet, riddled the officers' and men's quarters with bullets, put two or three machines on the ground out of action, and three in succession as they got into the air.
As for that car, it'll do everything we've said and don't you forget that." Colonel Howell, apparently taking this as a surrender, caught the two boys by their shoulders and exclaimed: "It's gettin' late. Lock up your shop and let's go and see what your fathers think of my project." Elated and nervous, the boys turned and, as if under a hypnotic spell, began to push the car into the aerodrome.
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