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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... flying at Strassburg , went to Morocco as a cadet , returned an officer , and in 1926 became a commercial aviator ... fly . He was later assigned to lone reconnaissance flights from Italy over southern France . He completed fifteen mis ...
... flying at Strassburg , went to Morocco as a cadet , returned an officer , and in 1926 became a commercial aviator ... fly . He was later assigned to lone reconnaissance flights from Italy over southern France . He completed fifteen mis ...
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... flying any more . " Then silence . A dry and bitter taste rose on their lips , like the dry savor of a journey's end . Some- thing mysterious , a sickening thing , had come to pass . And all the shining nickel and trel- lised copper ...
... flying any more . " Then silence . A dry and bitter taste rose on their lips , like the dry savor of a journey's end . Some- thing mysterious , a sickening thing , had come to pass . And all the shining nickel and trel- lised copper ...
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... flying a chance for heroic action ... Rivière , his superior , who believes that man's salvation lies not in freedom but in the acceptance of duty . " Aviation , like the exploration of un- charted lands has its early heroic age and ...
... flying a chance for heroic action ... Rivière , his superior , who believes that man's salvation lies not in freedom but in the acceptance of duty . " Aviation , like the exploration of un- charted lands has its early heroic age and ...
Contents
ALREADY BENEATH HIM THROUGH | 17 |
RIVIÈRE GLANCED AT THE PILOT | 33 |
AN HOUR LATER THE WIRELESS | 53 |
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