Another excerpt
Often, for no apparent reason, they let us down: suddenly there was a deafening roar and ringing, as if dishes were breaking into pieces, and we had to go to land, and the prickly rocks of Spain grinned at us. But the plane can be replaced. The most important thing is not to crash into a rock. This sailor was forbidden to go above the clouds, if there were mountains below, for fear of the most severe punishment.
Another excerpt
Often, for no apparent reason, they let us down: suddenly there was a deafening roar and ringing, as if dishes were breaking into pieces, and we had to go to land, and the prickly rocks of Spain grinned at us. But the plane can be replaced. The most important thing is not to crash into a rock. This sailor was forbidden to go above the clouds, if there were mountains below, for fear of the most severe punishment.
Part 2
Finally, one evening, they called me into the boss’s office. He said briefly: “You are flying tomorrow.” I stood and waited for him to let me go now. But after a pause he added: “Do you know the instructions well?” In those days, engines were not reliable, not like today.
Part 2
Finally, one evening, they called me into the boss’s office. He said briefly: “You are flying tomorrow.” I stood and waited for him to let me go now. But after a pause he added: “Do you know the instructions well?” In those days, engines were not reliable, not like today.
Excerpt
I remember how Bury, an old pilot who later crashed in Corbières, returned from one such flight. He sat down at our table and ate slowly, without saying a word; The weight of the exorbitant tension still weighed on his shoulders. It was in the evening, on one of those vile days when along the entire route from end to end the sky seems rotten, and it seems to the pilot that the mountain peaks are rolling in the mud.
Excerpt
I remember how Bury, an old pilot who later crashed in Corbières, returned from one such flight. He sat down at our table and ate slowly, without saying a word; The weight of the exorbitant tension still weighed on his shoulders. It was in the evening, on one of those vile days when along the entire route from end to end the sky seems rotten, and it seems to the pilot that the mountain peaks are rolling in the mud.
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This was in 1926. I joined the airline company Latecoer as a pilot. Here I learned our craft. Like my other comrades, I underwent an internship, without which a newcomer would not be trusted with mail. Test flights, Toulouse-Perpigna flights, tedious lessons in meteorology in a hanger, where nothing goes wrong.
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This was in 1926. I joined the airline company Latecoer as a pilot. Here I learned our craft. Like my other comrades, I underwent an internship, without which a newcomer would not be trusted with mail. Test flights, Toulouse-Perpigna flights, tedious lessons in meteorology in a hanger, where nothing goes wrong.
Planet of People
The earth helps us understand ourselves, just as capacious books cannot. For the earth resists us. A person learns about himself in the fight against obstacles. But for this fight he needs tools. You need a plane or plow. The peasant, cultivating the land, little by little wrests from nature the solution to some of its secrets and obtains the universal truth.
Planet of People
The earth helps us understand ourselves, just as capacious books cannot. For the earth resists us. A person learns about himself in the fight against obstacles. But for this fight he needs tools. You need a plane or plow. The peasant, cultivating the land, little by little wrests from nature the solution to some of its secrets and obtains the universal truth.
