The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 112National Geographic Society, 1957 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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... ground speed to be 142 miles . an hour . If it held , we would reach İstanbul at 7:30 after a total flight of nearly five hours . Fifteen minutes later the engine spluttered as the right tank ran dry , and I switched over to the left ...
... ground speed to be 142 miles . an hour . If it held , we would reach İstanbul at 7:30 after a total flight of nearly five hours . Fifteen minutes later the engine spluttered as the right tank ran dry , and I switched over to the left ...
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... ground is dark , except where a shaft of light slants downward as if through the rose window of a cathedral . The air is moist . A water moccasin winds by lazily , hardly visible . There's a tapping of the pileated woodpecker , with ...
... ground is dark , except where a shaft of light slants downward as if through the rose window of a cathedral . The air is moist . A water moccasin winds by lazily , hardly visible . There's a tapping of the pileated woodpecker , with ...
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... ground . Frank and I had found earlier a similar percentage of island nests in the Jackson Hole valley of Wyoming . But occasionally a Canada goose will elect to lay her eggs in an unoccupied fish hawk's nest 60 or 80 feet above the ground ...
... ground . Frank and I had found earlier a similar percentage of island nests in the Jackson Hole valley of Wyoming . But occasionally a Canada goose will elect to lay her eggs in an unoccupied fish hawk's nest 60 or 80 feet above the ground ...
Contents
Flight to Adventure Flying Their Own Singleengine Plane a Daring | v |
To the Men at South Pole Station By Rear Admiral Richard E Byrd | 1 |
Fledgling Wings of the Air Force By Thomas W McKnew | 266 |
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