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They flew over the Channel Isles and Touraine, he mentions, and circled about Mont Blanc 'These new helicopters, we found, he notes, 'had abolished all the danger and strain of sudden drops to which the old-time aeroplanes were liable' and then he went on by way of Pisa, Paestum, Ghirgenti, and Athens, to visit the pyramids by moonlight, flying thither from Cairo, and to follow the Nile up to Khartum.
The exuberance of his nature burst forth with a half-defiant: "If I were in charge, which I'm not, I'd stop those damned helicopters, let her down, turn what power we've got into the remaining propellers, and taxi ashore!" "And probably sink, or break up in the surf, on the beach, there!" curtly rejoined the Master. "Ah! What?"
A flying machine must therefore be constructed to take advantage of these natural laws, to imitate the bird, "that admirable type of aerial locomotion," according to Dr. Marcy, of the Institute of France. In short the contrivances likely to solve the problem are of three kinds: Helicopters or spiralifers, which are simply screws with vertical axes.
I should say, sir, it was a torpedo-boat or a destroyer, under forced draft. And it's coming it's coming at a devil of a clip, sir!" The Master rang for full engine-power, and threw in all six helicopters with one swift gesture. "Major," commanded he, as Nissr's burned and wounded body began to quiver through all its mutilated fabric; "Major, man the machine-guns again. All stations! Quick!"
The voice, in ordinary tones, carried perfectly; and yet in that small space nearly 7,000 H.P. were being produced and transmitted to the propellers and to the storage batteries that operated helicopters and compressed-air system, as well as the lighting-plant of the air-liner. As the two men entered the engine-room, the Master nodded to Auchincloss.
Descent in the winged rocket was rough. But then he was gliding with a sibilant whistle through a natural atmosphere, again. Within minutes he was at the Station low, dusty domes, many of them deserted, now, at the edge of the airfield, a lazily-spinning wind gauge, tractors, auto-jeeps, several helicopters. He stepped down with his gear.
But before that there was a highly necessary operation which would also go best with a helicopter to help. So when they left that pup-tent camp they headed toward a very minor, local airfield where Soames had once landed. It had hangars for half a dozen cheap private planes and for two helicopters used mostly for crop-dusting.
I'm very much afraid that just what you propose will be done to some degree somewhere or other on other planets as they're turned up. But on the glacier planet there will be hotels. The rich will want to go there to stay, to sight-see, to ride, to hunt, to ski, and to fly in helicopters over volcanoes. The hotels will need to be staffed. There will be guides and foresters and hunters.
Every child had them at that time, but curiously this one was like the seed which fell upon fertile soil. The boys went mad, as boys will, on the subject of flying. But unlike most boys they nurtured and cultivated the passion and it stayed with them to manhood. From helicopters they passed to kites, and from kites to gliders.
As it is, we've got to move on with practically nothing accomplished. The trouble is that I didn't think we would succeed as we have! Heaven knows I could have gotten helicopters!" He helped her up a small steep incline, where rock protruded from a hillside. The ground trembled again. Not alarmingly, but Babs' hold of his hand tightened a little. They continued to climb.
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