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Updated: June 3, 2025
His hat was a whirling speck behind. The wind came in gusts over his wind-screen and blew his hair in streamers past his cheek. The aeronaut made some hasty adjustments for the shifting of the centres of gravity and pressure. "I want to have these things explained," said Graham. "What do you do when you move that engine forward?" The aeronaut hesitated. Then he answered, "They are complex, Sire."
The vehicle itself is practically identical with the armoured motor-car, which has played such an important part during the present campaign, the driver being protected by a bullet-proof steel screen similar in design to the ordinary glass wind-screen fitted to touring automobiles.
The next minute she had found the edge of the wind-screen fortunately open at the time of the accident and had pulled herself off me. "My hair must have been " "Almost in my mouth," I said. "Exactly. I have been " "What?" "Licking it, my dear. It's awfully good for hair, you know imparts a gloss-like and silky appearance. Besides, since " "Idiot!"
They beat across the Channel, slowly as it seemed now, to Graham's enlarged ideas, and Beachy Head rose greyly to the left of them. "Land," called the aeronaut, his voice small against the whistling of the air over the wind-screen. "Not yet," bawled Graham, laughing. "Not land yet. I want to learn more of this machine." "I meant " said the aeronaut.
And when, on the following night, I found the wind-screen was not in the air port, and that, nevertheless, I still was alive, I knew we had passed out of reach of the Equator, and that all that followed would be as conventional as the "trippers" who joined us at the Canary Isles; and as familiar as the low, gray skies, the green, rain-soaked hills, and the complaining Channel gulls that convoyed us into Plymouth Harbor.
If he attempt to stand up or lean over the side, he will be swept back, after a short struggle, beneath the shelter of wind-screen and fuselage. But when diving on a Hun, I have never experienced this troubled sensation, probably because it has been swamped under the high tension of readiness for the task.
Now we're doing fifty, yet you don't know it. Wind-screen: yes, that's very much; but the concealment of effort is more." "You've had a life of adventure," she said. "Lancelot may have been right." "He wasn't far wrong," Urquhart said. "As a fact, I have never been a pirate; but I have smuggled tobacco in the Black Sea, and that's as near as you need go.
A rain-storm broke the fog a cold, raw, miserable rain. It is a muddy, dreary nest up here, among the dripping willows. We were a sorry-looking party, at lunch this noon, hovering over the smoking stove which was set in the tent door, with a wind-screen in front, and moist bedding hung all about in the vain hope of drying it in the feeble heat.
They beat across the Channel, slowly as it seemed now to Graham's enlarged ideas, and Beachy Head rose greyly to the left of them. "Land," called the aeronaut, his voice small against the whistling of the air over the wind-screen. "Not yet," bawled Graham, laughing. "Not land yet. I want to learn more of this machine." "I meant " said the aeronaut.
He opened two more valves to his left, swung round, end on to this hostile machine, closed his valves, and shot straight at it, stem and wind-screen shielding him from the shot. They tilted a little as if to clear him. He flung up his stem. Throb, throb, throb pause throb, throb he set his teeth, his face into an involuntary grimace, and crash! He struck it!
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