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 100
... manometers . It struck me that the engine was running badly and heating up , and the oil - pressure was going down . And it was dark as a plague of Egypt . Damned glad I was to see the lights of a town again . " " You've too much ...
... manometers . It struck me that the engine was running badly and heating up , and the oil - pressure was going down . And it was dark as a plague of Egypt . Damned glad I was to see the lights of a town again . " " You've too much ...
Page 176
... manometers and sheaves of wires . The operators on duty in their white overalls seemed to be bend- ing silently above some simple experiment . Delicately they touched their instruments , exploring the magnetic sky , dowsers in of hidden ...
... manometers and sheaves of wires . The operators on duty in their white overalls seemed to be bend- ing silently above some simple experiment . Delicately they touched their instruments , exploring the magnetic sky , dowsers in of hidden ...
Contents
EVENING | 3 |
SERVICE | 15 |
THE SOUND OF THE DISTANT ENGINE SWELLED | 21 |
Copyright | |
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