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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... hear , long echoes of the flight . Nodding reflectively , he bent down and tinkered with some unseen object . At last he turned toward the officials and his comrades , gravely taking stock of them as though of 28 THE SOUND OF THE ...
... hear , long echoes of the flight . Nodding reflectively , he bent down and tinkered with some unseen object . At last he turned toward the officials and his comrades , gravely taking stock of them as though of 28 THE SOUND OF THE ...
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... hear the mail . " " He's not sending anything ? " " Can't say . Too many storms . Even if he was sending we shouldn't pick it up . " " Can you get Trelew ? " " We can't hear Trelew . " " Telephone . " " We've tried . The line's broken ...
... hear the mail . " " He's not sending anything ? " " Can't say . Too many storms . Even if he was sending we shouldn't pick it up . " " Can you get Trelew ? " " We can't hear Trelew . " " Telephone . " " We've tried . The line's broken ...
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. chapter twenty Commodoro Rivadavia Could Hear Nothing Now- Commodoro Rivadavia could hear nothing now , but twenty seconds later , six hundred miles away , Bahia Blanca picked up a second message . " Coming down ...
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. chapter twenty Commodoro Rivadavia Could Hear Nothing Now- Commodoro Rivadavia could hear nothing now , but twenty seconds later , six hundred miles away , Bahia Blanca picked up a second message . " Coming down ...
Contents
ALREADY BENEATH HIM THROUGH | 17 |
RIVIÈRE GLANCED AT THE PILOT | 33 |
AN HOUR LATER THE WIRELESS | 53 |
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