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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... squalls . When one can't see a damned thing , squalls , you know . Instead of climbing I lost three hundred feet or more . I couldn't even see the gyroscope or the manometers . It struck me that the engine was running badly and heating ...
... squalls . When one can't see a damned thing , squalls , you know . Instead of climbing I lost three hundred feet or more . I couldn't even see the gyroscope or the manometers . It struck me that the engine was running badly and heating ...
Page 113
... twenty minutes . " " Ask Trelew . " " Trelew reports : Westerly gale ; a hun- dred feet per second ; rain squalls . " " Inform Buenos Aires : We are cut off on all sides ; storm developing over a depth of 113 NIGHT FLIGHT.
... twenty minutes . " " Ask Trelew . " " Trelew reports : Westerly gale ; a hun- dred feet per second ; rain squalls . " " Inform Buenos Aires : We are cut off on all sides ; storm developing over a depth of 113 NIGHT FLIGHT.
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... squalls and cloudbursts and lightnings , but turning to the stars a face of crystal snow . Now all grew luminous , his hands , his clothes , the wings , and Fabien thought that he was in a limbo of strange magic ; for the light did not ...
... squalls and cloudbursts and lightnings , but turning to the stars a face of crystal snow . Now all grew luminous , his hands , his clothes , the wings , and Fabien thought that he was in a limbo of strange magic ; for the light did not ...
Contents
EVENING | 3 |
SERVICE | 15 |
THE SOUND OF THE DISTANT ENGINE SWELLED | 21 |
Copyright | |
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