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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... miles of steppes as desolate as the sea , he encountered a lonely farm - house that seemed to be sailing backwards from him in a great prairie sea , with its freight of human lives ; and he caluted with his wings this passing ship ...
... miles of steppes as desolate as the sea , he encountered a lonely farm - house that seemed to be sailing backwards from him in a great prairie sea , with its freight of human lives ; and he caluted with his wings this passing ship ...
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... miles away , he feels the heavy ground - swell raise his panting plane and let it sink , when he has crossed a dozen storms like lands at war , between them neutral tracts of moonlight , to reach at last those lights , one following the ...
... miles away , he feels the heavy ground - swell raise his panting plane and let it sink , when he has crossed a dozen storms like lands at war , between them neutral tracts of moonlight , to reach at last those lights , one following the ...
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... miles away , Bahia Blanca picked up a second message . " Coming down . Entering the clouds . . . . " Then two words of a blurred message were caught at Trelew . 66 .. see nothing . . 99 Short waves are like that ; here they can be ...
... miles away , Bahia Blanca picked up a second message . " Coming down . Entering the clouds . . . . " Then two words of a blurred message were caught at Trelew . 66 .. see nothing . . 99 Short waves are like that ; here they can be ...
Contents
ALREADY BENEATH HIM THROUGH | 17 |
RIVIÈRE GLANCED AT THE PILOT | 33 |
AN HOUR LATER THE WIRELESS | 53 |
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