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Updated: June 8, 2025
Just then Blaine closed his own glass for he saw flyers coming on the run. "Are you two all right?" he called to the boys. "All our best men are off on the daily run over the Boche trenches. I cannot think how these fellows got by. Get down to the hangars, if you feel strong enough. I may have to go up myself . They're making straight for us."
Then the Raven chief took from the long parfleche sack a slender stick, beautifully dressed with many colored feathers; and on the end of it was fastened the skin of a raven, head, wings, feet, and all. Of all the above animals, of all the flyers, where is one so smart? None. The Raven's eyes are sharp. His wings are strong. He is a great hunter and never hungry.
Then, feeling that there was no further danger of the engines running hot, they took off. As the Sky-Bird arose into the air, the flyers noticed that Grandpa the monkey was slightly excited.
They are marvelous flyers, owing to the size of the pectoral muscles, which compared with those of other birds are extraordinarily large. They cannot rest on the water, but must sustain their flights from land to land, yet here they were in mid-ocean.
And the school team aren't such a lot of flyers that you can afford to go chucking people out of it whenever you want to. See what I mean?" "You and Jackson seem to have fixed it all up between you." "What are you going to do? Kick us out?" "No." "Good. I thought you'd see it was no good making a beastly row. We'll play for the school all right.
In the absence of Heurtaux, Guynemer was in command, and once more the necessity of setting a good example forced itself upon him. Several flyers had started on scouting work already; the fog was quickly lifting, the day would soon be resplendent, and the notion of duty too quickly dazzled him, like the sun.
In those tangles of gnarled trees, matted vines, interlacing rank grasses, and clusters of towering plants, so dank with the odor of wet and decay that the air even up where the flyers were seemed charged with it, lurked many a monster reptile and ferocious beast.
This was the stool pigeon. We also called him the flutterer or hoverer. "Now give us the flyers." Amos took out two more pigeons, and we tied long and strong strings to their boots. "Now they're ready. But there's hardly enough string for the long flyer. We ought to let him go up at least forty feet." "Cut a little off the string of the short flyer then, and tie it on to the other.
To judge it sanely, let us bear in mind the difficulties which are encountered in any flying-machine. The basic principle on which any such machine must be constructed is that of the aeroplane. This, by itself, would be the simplest of all flyers, and therefore the best if it could be put into operation. The principle involved may be readily comprehended by the accompanying figure.
About a dozen horses stood stripped for the race, and the betting men were yelling out the odds as we got close enough to the stand to hear them. We had a good look at the lot. Three or four good-looking ones among them, and one or two flyers that had got in light as usual. Rainbow was nowhere about. Darkie was on the card, but no one seemed to know where he was or anything about him.
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