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Horace Porter
Our Young Aeroplane Scouts in France and Belgium
Or, Saving the Fortunes of the Trouvilles
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4066338069382
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CHAPTER I.
THRILLING VOYAGE IN A SEA-PLANE.
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It was a muggy night in Dover—not an unusual thing in Dover—but nevertheless the wind had an extra whip in it and was lashing the outside Channel into a state of wild waves. An acetylene flare revealed several muffled figures flitting here and there on the harbor brink. There was a glint from polished surface, a flash-like, downward rush of a long, tapering hull, and a splash in the dark waters below. A sea-plane had been deftly launched. Motors hummed, a wide wake streamed away to the rear of the wonder craft, which, suddenly, as if by magic drawn upward from the tide, joined the winds that sported aloft.