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Updated: June 7, 2025
Once this was done Tom could operate the weapon with one hand, steering with the other, and, at times, with his feet and knees. There came several sharp pops near Tom's head, and he knew these were machine bullets from the Hun aviator's gun, breaking through the tightly stretched linen fabric of the wings of his own plane.
He stood there a moment in silence, dropped his gauntlets on the table and seemed peering at the Master. Then all at once he drew himself up, sharply, and saluted. The Master returned the salute. A moment's silence followed. No man was looking elsewhere than at this interloper. Not much could be seen of him, so swaddled was he in sheepskin jacket, aviator's helmet, and goggles.
Inside the boys approached the large aircraft, which rested lightly on its wheels at the end of the speedway. The huge planes which served as wings stretched out on either side like two great box kites, while underneath the aviator's seat the gearing could be plainly seen.
"You're a picture!" he cried, as he saw how particularly "fetching" she looked in the aviator's costume which was like his own. Because of the danger of entanglement, Miss Nestor had doffed her skirts, and wore the costume of all aviators men and women. "I wish I had my camera!" cried Tom. "You look stunning!"
He followed Johnny to the mouth of the cleft and stood there looking after him with a long face until Johnny disappeared into a slight depression, loped out again and presently became, to the aviator's eyes, an indistinguishable, wavering object against the sky line. Whereupon Bland gazed no more, but went thoughtfully back to his task.
This was because of an invention of Professor Henderson a small instrument similar to part of the ordinary telephone. The sensitive disk was a form of radio receiver which could be attached to any aviator's helmet, and was being put into general use by pilots. The two boys always adjusted this whenever they were strapped upon the pilot's seat.
The bombs could not be seen as they fell, of course, but while I gazed into the heavens another thunderous explosion came from near by, which I took to be the aviator's bomb, distinguished by the sharpness of its explosion from the anti-aircraft bombardment. Other guns along the route of the enemy took up the attack, then gradually all became silent once more.
A smiling English youth was embarrassed when asked how he brought down the great Immelmann, most famous of German aviators. Nelson's "Death or Westminster Abbey" has become paraphrased to "Death or the communiqué." At twenty-one, while a general of division is unknown except in the army an aviator's name may be the boast of a nation.
There was no gainsaying the fact ranch life had grown too tame, too stale for Johnny Jewel. And there was no gainsaying that other fact that Mary V would have to reconcile herself to being an aviator's wife, if she would mate with Johnny. He went to sleep thinking bitterly that neither he nor Mary V need concern themselves at present over that point.
The latter frequently means life or death. Fighting twenty-two thousand feet in the air produces a heavy strain on the heart. It is vital therefore that this organ show not the slightest evidence of weakness. Such weakness would decrease the aviator's fighting efficiency. The American boys who come over to France for this work will be subject to rapid and frequent variations in altitude.
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