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What you need is suthin' to stop it up." "Obviously," said Peggy with a trace of annoyance in her tone. "Now don't git riled, fer I've hit on a scheme ter git yer out of yer troubles." Bud shoved back his sombrero and gazed triumphantly at the astonished girl aviator. "But, Bud, how?" "Easy enough. Hyar," he exclaimed, looking back at the horsemen behind him, "whar's that dude Chick Berry?"
He stepped off upon a foot-wide beam, paused to make sure of his poise, and began to walk the girders with a sureness of foot any aviator might have envied. At regular intervals he encountered uprights: between these he had to depend upon his sense of direction and equilibrium to guide him safely across those narrow walks of steel made slippery by rain.
From the height at which they were when the motor stopped it would take them about ten minutes to reach the earth, holding back as Dick might. And there was work which, in the ordinary course of events, would take twice as long as this. "I'm only going to make a shift at it," explained the aviator. "If I can only get in temporary wires I can replace them later."
On December 18th, 1910, he won the Baron de Forrest prize of L4,000 for the longest flight from England to the Continent, flying from Eastchurch to Tirlemont, Belgium, in three hours, a distance of 161 miles. After two years of touring in America, he returned to England and established a flying school. First as aviator, and then as designer, Sopwith has done much useful work in aviation.
And I do hope so much you will be able to come to NY & honor us with your presence at dinner, famous aviator our Carl & we are so proud of you if you will still remember simple people like us do come any time. Wonder where you will be when this reaches you. I read in the papers that your accident isn't serious but I am worried, oh Carl you must take care of yourself. Yours as ever,
"Cover!" someone exclaimed, while we were looking at the gun; and everybody promptly got under the branches of a tree or a shed. A German aeroplane was cruising in our direction. If the aviator saw a group of men standing about he might draw conclusions and pass the wireless word to send in some shells at whatever number on the German gunners' map was ours.
"He is a dangerous man, and an unscrupulous one," said the aviator. "I do not say that through any malice, but because I firmly believe it. I would never trust him." "Nor shall I," added Dick. "I presume though, that he will have some feeling against me for this." "Very likely," agreed Mr. Vardon. "You will have to be on your guard."
As they rose, a couple of enormous birds sailed out of their way. Eagles or buzzards; he did not know enough of the country to be able to tell which. He was conscious of a feeling of dizziness and fatigue. Everything he had ever heard about side slipping, tail spins, nose dives in fact, all the accidents that might befall an aviator passed through his mind in gruesome procession.
Barney, the daring aviator, sang the words cheerfully, as he settled himself in his place at the wheel. He hardly felt the cheerfulness his tone implied.
After it had become almost a law that no aviator should descend lower than twelve thousand feet, British aviators on the Somme descended to three hundred, emptied their machine guns into the enemy, and escaped the patter of rifle fire which the surprised German soldiers had hardly begun before the plane at two miles a minute or more was out of range.
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