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Updated: May 27, 2025
It was a new type, designed for the Daily Mail Hydroplane Race round Great Britain, but at the time of the accident had a land chassis instead of floats. The wind at the time of the accident was about 10 miles per hour. At about 200 feet from the ground the air-craft buckled up and fell to the ground.
"She's a hydroplane," volunteered Tubby, "and Tom Jennings, down at the yard, says she's as fast as a race horse." "A hydroplane? that's one of those craft that cut along the top of the water like a skimming dish, isn't it?" asked Merritt. "That's the idea," responded Rob. "They're supposed to be as speedy as anything afloat in smooth water."
Someone in our shops is a traitor or worse!" "But what has a damaged hydroplane to do with that?" objected Ned. "If we had landed on water with these damaged pontoons, we'd have drowned most likely," replied Tom. "That would have suited the villains who want my formula, and no one would have been the wiser as to what caused the accident."
Now, perhaps, he's got the crazy notion in his head that we might prosecute him either for what he tried to do up here to our hydroplane, or on account of breaking into our hangar, and doing a certain amount of damage, if the vandal was Percy Carberry." "That sounds a little reasonable, anyhow, Frank.
In the early dawn of a foggy morning we beached the Eitel 3 on a sandy stretch of Danish shore within a few kilometres of an airdome of the World Patrol. A native fisherman took Grauble, Marguerite and myself in his hydroplane to the post, where we found the commander at his breakfast. He was a man of quick intelligence.
Of course, even though he sought the hydroplane, and found it lying there in the field, he could not very well make any use of it so long as Frank held the missing part in his possession. But he could in a spirit of maliciousness so utterly destroy the planes, and even injure the powerful little Kinkaid engine that it would be practically fit only for the scrap-heap afterwards.
The rest of this crowd is likely to wake up in a minute or two." Jack followed his friend across the sand. They laid hold of the hydroplane and rolled it toward the water. In it went with a splash and Frank cried: "Climb aboard quickly!" Jack needed no urging and a moment later the two boys were ready for flight.
"No one has sent a picture over a telephone wire, as far as I know, but during the recent hydroplane tests at Monte Carlo, photographs taken of some of the events in the morning, and afternoon, were developed in the evening, and transmitted over five hundred miles of wire to Paris, and those same photographs were published in the Paris newspapers the next morning." "Is that right, Tom?"
In almost less time than it takes to tell it they were directly above the British fleet, which, so far, consisted only of five ships of war besides the Glasgow, an armored cruiser, the Albert and Victoria, torpedo boats, being the Queen Mary and Indefatigable. As the Germans approached in the air, a hydroplane ascended from each of the British ships and British aviators gave chase to the enemy.
"Right," said Frank. "We'll go down after them." The hydroplane descended slowly. Below, the fallen aeroplane rested upon the surface of the sea. In the darkness, it was hard for the lads to tell just how badly the craft was damaged and whether it would float; but Jack's idea was to be on the safe side. While still some distance from the water, there was a shot from below. "Hello!" said Jack.
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