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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 . 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 ...
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... ground safely ? An old rancher once gave me an explana- tion : " I seen it happen , " he related solemnly . " Them little ones each grabs a big goose feather , that curved kind off the back , and they just spindle down like a helio ...
... ground safely ? An old rancher once gave me an explana- tion : " I seen it happen , " he related solemnly . " Them little ones each grabs a big goose feather , that curved kind off the back , and they just spindle down like a helio ...
Contents
Across the Frozen Desert to Byrd Station Tractorborne Explorers | vi |
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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