Night FlightWinner of the 1931 Prix Femina, the novel concerns the perils of pioneer aviation, and is a fictionalized account of the author's own experience. "An enduring modern classic and the best description of flight in print" (Schiff, 205, 210). |
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Page 15
... Buenos Aires . Their arrival with the mails would give the signal for the de- parture , about midnight , of the Europe postal plane . Three pilots , each behind a cowling heavy as a river - barge , intent upon his flight , were ...
... Buenos Aires . Their arrival with the mails would give the signal for the de- parture , about midnight , of the Europe postal plane . Three pilots , each behind a cowling heavy as a river - barge , intent upon his flight , were ...
Page 51
... Buenos Aires Radio Post its desperate calls came faltering through , fused with the atmospherics of the storm . Under the leaden weight of sky the golden music of the waves was tarnished . Lament 51 in the minor of a plane sped ...
... Buenos Aires Radio Post its desperate calls came faltering through , fused with the atmospherics of the storm . Under the leaden weight of sky the golden music of the waves was tarnished . Lament 51 in the minor of a plane sped ...
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... Buenos Aires , bearing its message through the night like bale - fires lit from tower to tower . Buenos Aires transmitted a reply . “ Storm covers all interior area . How much gasoline left ? " " For thirty minutes . " These words sped ...
... Buenos Aires , bearing its message through the night like bale - fires lit from tower to tower . Buenos Aires transmitted a reply . “ Storm covers all interior area . How much gasoline left ? " " For thirty minutes . " These words sped ...
Contents
EVENING | 3 |
SERVICE | 15 |
THE SOUND OF THE DISTANT ENGINE SWELLED | 21 |
Copyright | |
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