St Nicholas [serial] . WILD EAGLE. BY CHARLES L. BLATCHFORD. (PRIZE, CLASS lWILD CREATURE PHOTOGRAPHY.) 470 ST. NICHOLAS LEAGUE [Mar.,. AN AEROPLANE TRIP by edward f. weiskopf(age 14) {Silver Badge) It was seven oclock in theevening of September 4, had just time to catch thenight plane to Boston. Myuncle took me to the station inhis flyabout, which was a largemachine, seating seven per-sons. After we had gone along fora while, we saw the lights ofthe aeroplane tower in the dis-tance. When he saw this, myuncle gave the word to hischauffeur and we landed onthe platform, near the nightexpr
St Nicholas [serial] . WILD EAGLE. BY CHARLES L. BLATCHFORD. (PRIZE, CLASS lWILD CREATURE PHOTOGRAPHY.) 470 ST. NICHOLAS LEAGUE [Mar.,. AN AEROPLANE TRIP by edward f. weiskopf(age 14) {Silver Badge) It was seven oclock in theevening of September 4, had just time to catch thenight plane to Boston. Myuncle took me to the station inhis flyabout, which was a largemachine, seating seven per-sons. After we had gone along fora while, we saw the lights ofthe aeroplane tower in the dis-tance. When he saw this, myuncle gave the word to hischauffeur and we landed onthe platform, near the nightexpress. This was the largest machineon the line. It was over onethousand feet long,v and would hold about >a\ five hundred I was not there^~->A a moment too soon,^% as it started right afterclimbed on engines startedwith a whirring soundthat vibrated throughthe machine, but afterwe started there wereno vibrations to the deck I sawthe New York lightsdisappear, and alsosaw the great search-lights used to guideaeroplanes out of the thick fog. About this time a whistle was to be heard, and lookingahe
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