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Updated: May 6, 2025
"It is a new form of stabilizer, and made so as to overcome the defects of others which are on the market. A stabilizer should automatically keep an airplane on a fairly level keel no matter how air conditions are, even so steady that it will travel along on its course for a considerable distance with the pilot paying no attention to his controls, perhaps eating his lunch or reading his orders."
I hope you are successful, Dick, but, I have my doubts." "I'll show you!" cried the cadet enthusiastically. Dick and his father had much to talk about concerning the airship. Dick explained his plans, and described the new stabilizer. "Well, now that you have explained it to me, I don't see but what it may be possible," said Mr. Hamilton, after carefully considering the matter.
And another voice still said formally: "Reporting group five, but four ships are staying behind with tanker Toya, which is having stabilizer trouble...." Hoddan's eyes opened very wide. He turned down the sound while he tried to think. But there wasn't anything to think.
Before him, reaching up into the shadows of the cavernous hangar, was the gleaming hull of a huge rocket ship. Two hundred feet long, the space vessel stood on its stabilizer fins, ladders and cables running into the open ports on both sides. Roger waved to Tom, who had also stopped to stare at the giant spaceship, and the two of them met beneath the gleaming hull. "What's the matter?" asked Tom.
Dick Hamilton had not been very friendly with Lieutenant Larson during the aviation instruction at Kentfield. In fact the young millionaire did not like the army officer. Added to this the suspicion that Larson might have had some hand in tampering with the stabilizer of Mr. Vardon's craft, did not make Dick any too anxious to see the birdman. And yet he felt that in courtesy he must.
"Well, there are many who might have done it," the machinist went on. "Some of the mechanics you have discharged for not doing their work properly might have done it. But the fellow I suspect is that young army officer who got huffy because you wouldn't explain all about your equalizing gyroscope, or stabilizer." "Oh you mean him?" gasped the aviator. "That's the man," declared Jack.
If they decide it isn't worth the labor, they'll junk her here in space." The faces of the three cadets fell. "But there's no real damage on her power deck, sir," said Astro. "And the hull is in good shape, except for the stabilizer fin and some of the stern plates. Why, sometimes a green Earthworm unit will crack a fin on their first touchdown."
Stabilizer, elevator, and rudder were gone over carefully. Control wires were gone over for their full lengths and their pulleys tried. Brace wires were felt for slackness, from the tail to the inside of the fuselage. The control wires to the ailerons, the pulleys and the hinges, nothing escaped the eyes of Joe Little. Each blade of the propeller he searched for a minute crack.
Vardon announced would be his temporary workshop for possible repairs. The rest of that day, and all of the next, was spent by Mr. Vardon in taking his wrecked machine apart, saving that which could be used again, and looking particularly for defects in the gyroscope stabilizer, or equilibrizer.
Tom dove at the box and tried to pull it off the stabilizer, but Major Connel grabbed him by the arm and wrenched him out into space. "You space-blasted idiot!" Connel growled. "That thing's liable to go off any second! Get away from here!" With a mighty shove, the spaceman sent Tom flying out toward the jet boat and then jumped to safety himself.
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