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The gentlemen having charge of the local scout movement, however, had decided that it would be wiser to wait and see the result of one patrol's training before forming a second one. "I'm going to try for an aviator's badge," announced Paul Perkins, as Rob declared the official business at an end. "Say, Rob, what's the matter with our fixing up a wireless in the camp?
It wavered an instant, like a dragon fly about to alight, and then instead of responding to the aviator's levers turned on its left side and plunged to the ground. A cloud of dust arose, half hiding the wreck, and then the crash of impact came to his ears. There was a second of silence, broken by a groan. Harry heard the groan and didn't even know it came from his own throat.
The boy pointed to his aviator's sodden leather coat. Although he had gained much strength from the warm blankets, he had found himself unable to speak of the tragedy which had befallen his companion on the Stormy Petrel. Now as he saw Curlie draw the water-soaked map from the pocket of his coat, a look of horror overspread his face and he muttered hoarsely: "Throw it into the sea.
Loss of speed "perte de vitesse," as the French call it is the aviator's most common peril in landing. If it occurs after his engine is cut off and he has not the time to start it again, the machine tilts and slides down sideways. If it occurs higher up a vrille is the probable result. In this the plane plunges toward the ground spinning round and round with the corner of one wing as a pivot.
There was an arrangement whereby the machine could be held in leash, as it were, by a rope, and when the necessary pressure developed from the propeller blades, the rope could be loosed from the aviator's seat. But that attachment was not in use at Kentfield then. The powerful motor hummed and throbbed, for a muffler was temporarily dispensed with on account of its weight.
They have been known to penetrate a soldier's steel helmet, to pass through his body and that of the horse he bestrode, and bury themselves in the earth. In the airplane they are carried in boxes of one hundred each, placed over an orifice in the floor. A touch of the aviator's foot and all are discharged.
None the less Lanyard's rough and rapid calculations persuaded him that they were then about Mid-Channel. He had no more than arrived at this conclusion when a sharp, startled movement, that rocked the planes, drew his attention to the man at his side. Glancing in alarm at the aviator's face, he saw it as white as marble what little of it was visible beyond and beneath the wind-mask.
"When we try for a landing we'll endeavor to make our own crowd understand that, though this is a German machine, it comes on no hostile errand. If we can't make the Frenchmen understand that, then they'll blow us back into the sky as soon as we range low enough!" Guided by that instinct which is the aviator's best compass at night, Reade steered toward the landing field.
Hills and valleys do not exist, all landscape being flat to the aviator's eye, as we know; but against reason some mental kink made me feel that this optical law should not apply to the chalk cliffs when we came to the coast, where only the green sward which crowns them was visible and beyond this a line of gray, the beach, which had an edge of white lace that was moving the surf.
"You don't know what it means to be taught " Jean had a stifling sense as of some great green tree bending down to crush her. She put out her hand to push it away. In the silence a bell whirred . Derry Drake, ushered in by Julia, saw the room in the rosy glow of the lamp. He saw Ralph Witherspoon towering insolently in his aviator's green. He saw Jean, blushing and perturbed.
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