The Flying Girl and Her Chum
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Baum Lyman Frank. The Flying Girl and Her Chum
CHAPTER I. THE GIRL WITH THE YACHT
CHAPTER II. THE GIRL WITH THE AËROPLANE
CHAPTER III. A PRODIGY IN AERONAUTICS
CHAPTER IV. THE ALUMINUM CHEST
CHAPTER V. THE LAST DROP OF GASOLINE
CHAPTER VI. CASTAWAYS
CHAPTER VII. TWO GIRLS AND ONE ISLAND
CHAPTER VIII. AN OWL CONCERT
CHAPTER IX. MISS COLUMBUS AND MISS CRUSOE
CHAPTER X. MADELINE DENTRY'S PROPOSITION
CHAPTER XI. A GAME OF CHECKERS
CHAPTER XII. THE QUEST OF THE SALVADOR
CHAPTER XIII. CAPRICIOUS FATE
CHAPTER XIV. ON THE BLUFF
CHAPTER XV. BOAT AHOY!
CHAPTER XVI. AN ISLAND KINGDOM
CHAPTER XVII. DON MIGUEL, DEL BORGITIS
CHAPTER XVIII. THE MASK OFF
CHAPTER XIX. AN EXCITING RACE
CHAPTER XX. BESIEGED
CHAPTER XXI. CAPTURING AN AËROPLANE
CHAPTER XXII. RAMON GANZA
CHAPTER XXIII. A DESPERATE ALTERNATIVE
CHAPTER XXIV. THE DIPLOMACY OF CHESTY TODD
CHAPTER XXV. SCUTTLED
CHAPTER XXVI. ORISSA RETURNS
CHAPTER XXVII. FACING THE CRISIS
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE PRISONER
CHAPTER XXIX. ORISSA DECIDES
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The morning following Orissa Kane's arrival, which was the Saturday preceding the meet, she went with her brother Stephen to his hangar, which was located near the Glenn Curtiss aviation camp on a low bluff overlooking the Pacific. There the two spent the entire forenoon in a careful inspection of the new Hydro-Aircraft.
As she had told Madeline Dentry, the Flying Girl never wittingly took chances in the dangerous profession she followed. The remarkable success of her aërial performances was due to an exact knowledge of every part of her aëroplane. She knew what each bolt and brace was for and how much strain it would stand; she knew to a feather's weight the opposition of the planes to the air, the number of revolutions to drive the engine under all conditions and the freaks of the unreliable atmospheric currents. And aside from this knowledge she had that prime quality known as "the aviator's instinct" – the intuition what to do in emergencies, and the coolness to do it promptly.
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The motor boat attachment, which took the place of the ordinary running gear, was of sheet aluminum, as light and yet as strongly built as was possible for a thing intended to be practical. Adjustable wheels, which could be folded back when the boat was in the water, were placed on either side, to give the craft a land start. The huge engine was beautiful in appearance, while the planes – a crossed arrangement peculiar to the Kane Aircraft – were immaculately white in their graceful spread.
"This upper plane," said Steve, proud to explain the marvels of his latest mechanical pet, "is so arranged that its position may be altered by means of a lever. If you're on the water and want to save gasoline you adjust the plane as a sail and let the wind drive you."
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