Night FlightAn adventure novel about the brave men who pilot night mail planes from Patagonia, Chile, and Paraguay to Argentina in the early days of commercial aviation. Their chief is a steely man named Riviere, whose extraordinary character is revealed through the dramatic acts of a single night. |
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... land . " The wireless operator gave their position to all the stations on the line . From Magel- lan Strait to Buenos Aires the airports were strung out across fifteen hundred miles and more , but this one led toward the frontiers of ...
... land . " The wireless operator gave their position to all the stations on the line . From Magel- lan Strait to Buenos Aires the airports were strung out across fifteen hundred miles and more , but this one led toward the frontiers of ...
Page 39
... land and sea . " The men are happy , " he would say , “ be- cause they like their work , and they like it because I am hard . " And hard he may have been - still he gave his men keen pleasure for all that . “ They need , " he would say ...
... land and sea . " The men are happy , " he would say , “ be- cause they like their work , and they like it because I am hard . " And hard he may have been - still he gave his men keen pleasure for all that . “ They need , " he would say ...
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... land outside were not to be distin- guished , lost both alike in a welter as of worlds in the making . But the hands of the flying instruments oscillated more and more abruptly , grew almost impossible to follow . Already the pilot ...
... land outside were not to be distin- guished , lost both alike in a welter as of worlds in the making . But the hands of the flying instruments oscillated more and more abruptly , grew almost impossible to follow . Already the pilot ...
Contents
ALREADY BENEATH HIM THROUGH | 17 |
THUS THE THREE PLANES OF THE AIR | 24 |
ddress | 33 |
Copyright | |
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