Night FlightAfter a tragic crash in the Andes, an airport supervisor must decide whether to continue the "night flights" of the mail. |
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... enter into this one night with a measured slowness , as into an anchorage . He bent down into the cockpit ; the lumi- nous dial - hands were beginning to show up . The pilot read their figures one by one ; all was going well . He felt ...
... enter into this one night with a measured slowness , as into an anchorage . He bent down into the cockpit ; the lumi- nous dial - hands were beginning to show up . The pilot read their figures one by one ; all was going well . He felt ...
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. chapter twelve Now The Patagonia Mail Was Entering The Storm- Now the Patagonia mail was entering the storm and Fabien abandoned all idea of cir- cumventing it ; it was too widespread for that , he reckoned ...
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. chapter twelve Now The Patagonia Mail Was Entering The Storm- Now the Patagonia mail was entering the storm and Fabien abandoned all idea of cir- cumventing it ; it was too widespread for that , he reckoned ...
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... enter a stable world , softly illuminated all night long . A land which held no threat for the just bal- ance of ... entered in , well , the tragedy might prove the fissure - but it proved nothing else . Perhaps , he thought , it would ...
... enter a stable world , softly illuminated all night long . A land which held no threat for the just bal- ance of ... entered in , well , the tragedy might prove the fissure - but it proved nothing else . Perhaps , he thought , it would ...
Contents
ALREADY BENEATH HIM THROUGH | 17 |
RIVIÈRE GLANCED AT THE PILOT | 33 |
AN HOUR LATER THE WIRELESS | 53 |
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