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Updated: June 6, 2025
Finally the day came when the "bad bus" -rechristened the "boys' bus " -was wheeled out for its trial flight after the completion of the repairs. Adams was chosen to make the trial trip, which went off without incident. He flew the big biplane six or seven hundred feet above the green carpet of the airdrome, and came down with a graceful volplane that caused the boys to feel like applauding.
John shut off both engines, and they began to volplane down in a great stillness, sailing like an immense hawk. Lower and lower they went fourteen, thirteen, twelve, eleven, ten thousand feet.
Jamming on the brakes he leaped from the pilot house to the stern of his own craft, catching up his electric rifle. The other airship, caught by the grappling anchor at the end of a long rope, was just settling down, those in her having the good sense to shut off their power, and volplane when they found that they could not escape.
Let him think he can go by us like we were tied to a cloud, if he wants to. There will come a time when his confidence in his machine will cost him his job!" Leroy saw that Ned was really in earnest in the expressed wish to deceive the aviator of the rival aeroplane, and also saw that there was good reason for doing so, so he shut off the motors and started to volplane downward.
That magneto has gone out of business again." "Don't land here!" cried Ivan Petrofsky. "Why not?" "Because we are approaching a large town Owbinsk I think it is-the police there will be there to get us. Keep on to the forest again!" "I can't!" cried Tom. "We've got to go down, police or no police." Running to the pilot house, he guided the craft so that it would safely volplane to earth.
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