Dastral of the Flying Corps

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Rowland Walker. Dastral of the Flying Corps

CHAPTER I. DASTRAL WINS HIS PILOT'S BADGE

CHAPTER II. THE FERRY PILOT

CHAPTER III. OVER THE GERMAN LINES

CHAPTER IV. STRAFING THE BABY-KILLERS

CHAPTER V. A BOMBING RAID

CHAPTER VI. A ZEPPELIN NIGHT

CHAPTER VII. COWDIE, THE "SPARE PART"

CHAPTER VIII. THE RAID ON KRUPPS

CHAPTER IX. THE GIANT WAR-PLANE

CHAPTER X. HIMMELMAN S LAST FIGHT

CHAPTER XI "BLIGHTY"

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IT was an hour before dawn, and the stars had not yet faded from the skies, when a group of air mechanics at one of the aerodromes just north of London were busy about the ailerons and fuselage of a new machine, which was destined to fly across the Channel that day, and to join one of the British Squadrons on the other side.

The secret of the machine had been well kept, and only a favoured few had been permitted to see the "hornet," as she was called. Great things were claimed for her when she joined one of the active squadrons, now fighting in France for the supremacy of the air.

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"M I N E S!!!"

"Good. If that fails, the ship's done for!" ejaculated Fisker, as he watched eagerly for the ship to change her course.

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