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The lost mine that you and I stumbled upon in that terrible storm?" "That is the one, Peter." "Then, Tom Swift may as well return. I doubt if we can even locate the district where it was, and if we did find it, the winds blow so that even this magnificent ship could not weather the gales." "I guess he doesn't understand about my air glider," said Tom with a smile, when this was translated to him.
The distance, however, wasn't of particular importance. The powered aircraft which would tow Joe Mauser's glider to a suitable altitude preliminary to his riding the air currents, as a bird rides them, could also haul him to a point just short of the military reservation's border.
I'll do it if I got to." "Course it breaks my heart to see you swipe the honor," the Turk said, "but I'm unselfish. I'll let you do it. Brrrr! It's as bad as the first jump into the swimming-hole in spring." Carl was smiling at the comparison as they lifted the glider, with him holding the bars beneath.
I didn't realise at all how loose my moral and nervous fibre had become until I reached the practical side of my investigations and was face to face with the necessity of finding out just how it felt to use a glider and just what a man could do with one. I got into this relaxed habit of living in spite of very real tendencies in my nature towards discipline.
One can best compare them to bicycles having no cranks, but on which one could learn to balance by coming down an incline. It was in 1895 that Lilienthal passed from experiment with the monoplane type of glider to the construction of a biplane glider which, according to his own account, gave better results than his previous machines.
They had to cling to each other and it was very evident that no airship, not even the powerful Falcon, could have reached the place. Only an air glider would answer. It took them half an hour to get to the opening of the ancient mine, and by that time it was nearly dark.
It was tedious waiting that day, but it had to be done, and to Tom, who was anxious to effect the rescue, and proceed to the place of the winds to try his air glider, it seemed as if dusk would never come as they remained in concealment. But night finally approached and then the great airship went silently aloft, ready to hover over the prison ground.
I meant to apply power to this glider as soon as I could work out one or two residual problems affecting the longitudinal stability.
"I hardly know myself. But it's evident that we're on the right spot now." "But the wind has stopped blowing," said Mr. Damon. "It was only a gust." "It was the worst kind of a gust I ever want to see," declared the young inventor. "My air glider ought to work to perfection in that. If you think the wind has died out, Mr. Damon, just walk in that direction," and Tom pointed off to the left.
"I don't know what you mean by an air glider, Tom Swift, but I'll go to help rescue my brother," was the quick answer, and then, with the light of a daring resolve shining in his eyes, the young inventor proceeded to get his aeroplane in shape for the trip back to Shopton.
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