The Zeppelin Destroyer: Being Some Chapters of Secret History
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Le Queux William. The Zeppelin Destroyer: Being Some Chapters of Secret History
Chapter One. Over a “Gasper.”
Chapter Two. The Murder-Machines
Chapter Three. The Brown Deal Box
Chapter Four. Concerns the Secret
Chapter Five. The Raid on London
Chapter Six. Theed’s Strange Story
Chapter Seven. Reveals a Plot
Chapter Eight. Some Suspicions
Chapter Nine. Contains More Curious Facts
Chapter Ten. The Tunnel Mystery
Chapter Eleven. The Signalman’s Story
Chapter Twelve. Reveals an Astounding Fact
Chapter Thirteen. The Leopard’s Eyes
Chapter Fourteen. False or True?
Chapter Fifteen. Concerns Harold Hale
Chapter Sixteen. At Holly Farm
Chapter Seventeen. Not Counting the Cost
Chapter Eighteen. The Tri-Coloured Rings
Chapter Nineteen. Flashes in the Night
Chapter Twenty. Those “Eyes!”
Chapter Twenty One. Roseye’s Secret
Chapter Twenty Two. More Devil’s Work
Chapter Twenty Three. The “L39.”
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An hour later I made another flight in order to try my new gyroscopic stabiliser, which – for the benefit of those unversed in aerial navigation – I may say is an invention which incorporates a horizontal reference plane of accuracy and integrity to which all angles can be referred.
I flew across to the Thames, and followed the winding silvery streak with dotted blotches of houses up to Windsor and back, finding that the invention rendered my machine a platform which was not only steady, but was also held in constant relation to the horizontal.
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Many, alas! were the disappointments. Yet we all three had one goal in view, keeping it ever before us – the fighting of the Zeppelin.
Little did we dream of the strange, dramatic events which were to result from our secret scientific investigations, undertaken in all our enthusiasm.
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