Just then Gregory switched on the spark, and the Red Flier glided into the branch road with the town well in sight.
Henry, Nugent's driver, will take the Red Flier to Albuquerque, if you can't.
Before the Red Flier had been brought to a standstill, Hank and Spangler were over the side, Hank catching the loose horse and spurring after the fugitives, and Spangler floundering after him on foot.
The twenty-five miles were covered in thirty minutes, and when Pringle called on Matt to stop, he brought the Red Flier to a standstill at a place where the hills rose steeply on each side of the trail.
The speed of the Flier had scattered the jagged glass, but most of it had gone to the place Matt had in mind.
Once more the Red Flier found shelter in the hotel barn, and once more James Q.
Look after the Red Flier and have her all ready to start early to-morrow morning.
The Red Flier was in the hotel barn, and Denny was in the hotel.
A turn with the steering-wheel headed the Flier for the opening, and she glided in between the sloping walls of the narrow swale.
Matt, with the location of the Red Flier firmly fixed in his mind, groped his way through the gloom and came to the front of the machine.
Matt advanced the spark, and sent the Red Flier ahead at a furious speed.
The Red Flier leaped onward with a bound, Matt leaning over the wheel and coaxing the six cylinders up, notch by notch, to their limit of power.
He judged that they were, and he wondered at their foolish attempt to try to chase the Red Flier and bring the car to a halt from the rear.
The climb was a stiff one, but Matt put the Red Flier at it without loss of a moment.
Presently the racer behind was so close that those in the Flier could see the grimly resolute look on Hank's face, and could hear the fierce words with which he threatened the man under his revolver-point.
We can produce at any time proof that a man left the Flier a few miles beyond the wreck.
In the first place," I began, "do you remember the day the Washington Flier was wrecked below here?
Through the dead air, over a dead world they shot--Allan's white flier and the ebony plane with the bloody emblem of the seven-pointed star emblazoned on its nose.
Now he understood why he had not seen the black fliertill it had leaped in pursuit: how it was that Naomi's captors had so quickly found another 'copter.
A quick inspection of the flier revealed that its alumino-steeloid had been unaffected by the passage of time, and Allan climbed into it.
The buyer was an Arab from Bombay, operating for a syndicate of rich Indians taking a flier in lottery tickets.
The daily cable from London summarizing the tea market interests each of these men as vitally as the tale of the ticker interests the American taking a flier in stocks.
A falling beam caught him on the back of the head and the young flier blacked out.
The flier grinned and held up crossed fingers, just as Tom had done to Mike Burrows the previous evening.
That was the racing ground over which they had contended with the Chicago-Puget Sound flier for many years, and a place which engineers and firemen prepared to pass quickly while yet a considerable distance away.
Where does the flier stop after it passes Misery, going west?
A passenger might alight from the Chicago flier at any of them, and be absorbed in the vastness like a drop of water in the desert plain.
There was a train for home at six, that same flier he once had raced.
It was customary for the horsemen who raced the flier to wait on the ground until the engine rounded the curve, then mount and settle to the race.
Engineers on the flier were not so sulky about it, knowing that the race was theirs before it was run.
There was nobody in sight but the postmaster with the mail sack, the station agent, and the few citizens who always stood around the station for the thrill of seeing the flier stop to take water.
There will probably be laws controlling flights over cities and communities, where an accident to the flier might endanger the lives below.
Opposing our brave men there was, from time to time, a German flier who attained considerable renown, and who, for a time at least, baffled his opponents.
When the horrified spectators rushed to the spot, they found the fearless pioneer flier dead beneath the wreck of his machine.
But it was several years before this miniature flier was ready, and so for a while the idol of the French public dropped almost completely out of sight.
In the Spring there occurred in England a memorable contest between Paulhan and a young flier who up to that time was unheard of, but who rapidly made a reputation for himself in aviation.
The operator or flier lay face downward in the center of the lower plane.
I saw one of the German flier heroes in a base hospital.
He could not remember the flier ever having said much about himself.
The British flier thought he was going to get away.
He did not think any sane flier would be zooming along on the crests of the waves.
A big flier burst into the weird bright flame of the thermit fluid.
Then the crew of the one grounded freighter arrived on the landing stage and the flapping flier rose slowly and rejoined the fleet.
We’ve made it alone practically all the way and you’re bound to admit that we’ve had all the luck anyflier could ask.
From all you’ve been telling me, this young lady must be the best flier in Egypt.
Mary,” her father was saying, “I want you to meet the finest American flier in Egypt, Captain Burt Ramsey.
But somehow he seems to escape, even when he smashes his flier to kindling wood.
Andy also knew that the other was particularly chagrined, because he did not know what manner of a new flier the Bird boys had in hand now.
Had he and Frank just come out for an hour's spin he could not have shown more delight, as they went whirling through space, with that rival flier a mile or two ahead.
He took off for Moscow, poking his flier up through the clouds and flying close to them, as was his habit.
The guards fell back from the flierand snapped to attention.
A moment later the flier vanished in the clouds towards Stockholm.
On the hospital roof, he noticed, apart from private fliers, stood a flier that resembled his own.
Last of all to emerge from the flier was Nadezhda Brunhildova.
A Swedish Red Cross flier was missing from the National Hospital.
He tucked the invoice into his inner pocket with a satisfied grunt, climbed into his flier and hopped over to Hotel Reisen, where Zubov's kidnaping team was waiting for him.
As Petya brought the flier to a hovering stop against Colonel James' window, Pashkov bounced into the room; Zubov drew his gun and jumped in after.
Pashkov dove into the clouds and brought his flier to a hovering stop.
And then the flier was rushing through the air at a lively rate.
Well, if we hadn't landed in this clearing that German flierwould not have dropped any bombs down here.
As the two machines approached each other Jacques all at once elevated his front plane and the big French flier rose swiftly higher and higher.
The three boys leaned forward tensely as if to urge their flier on; Leon and Earl sat ready to open fire with the machine-gun the moment Jacques should give the word.
He dropped a bomb," suddenly cried Leon who had not once removed his gaze from the flierhigh above their heads.
But another wild swoop and dive and upward turn shook the light off for a moment, and then the Night-Flier put her nose down and drove straight at the point from which the sword of light stabbed up.
The Night-Flier paid no heed to any of them, dropped to a bare three hundred feet, flattened, and went roaring straight along the line of machines standing on the 'drome below.
The line of lights which marked the machines below had winked out at the first burst of the Archies, but the Night-Flier had marked the spot, her engine roared out, and she went swooping down the last thousand feet straight at her mark.
It was a near hit and brought the sub to the surface but it seemed to the young flier that she came up shooting; at least, by the time they had swung back, the sub's gun was barking.
In others you'll put light pneumatic rubber rafts and fishing line--that's in case the flier might land in the sea.
A daring young flier swooped low to pour a deadly fire across her bow.
Thorn Hard was a high-level flierfor the Pacific Watch.
They would actually have to examine the flier before they could learn what it represents to the army aviation corps; and we keep it closely guarded all the time we are not in the air.
In this way he managed to make the littleflier take sudden lurches; but in every instance the model instantly resumed its upright position as soon as the pull was past.
In good time, long before the sun gave token of setting, they arrived in town; and Bud was made happy in seeing his precious miniature flier safely deposited at his own door.
But what would a flier be doing away up here, going around and around in the dark of night?
In the first darkness of the wild December night, engine and tender had rushed on ahead to division headquarters, to let the line know that the flier had given up the fight, and needed assistance.
When finally the Bellefonte operator got his man, he said hastily: "A flier is making a forced landing at your field right away.
Shirley Short, former Air Mail pilot and flier for the Chicago Daily News, told me the story.
This thing actually happened in the Middle West, when a fliertook the "mats" of the Hutchinson (Kans.
That excellent flier and former Air Mail pilot, Paul Collins, is one of the airmen who performed this trick.
It convinced Mr. Johnson that Jimmy was right when he argued that the Morning Press ought to add a flier to its staff.
So far he had not seen a plane anywhere, and he believed he was the first news flier to reach the scene.
He was always studying how to be a better flierand how to gain more ability in his new task as a newspaper man.
The man recalled him at once as the flier who had brought help from the city during the winter.
In moderate weather the flier wore upon his head a woolen hood, or helmet, extending well down over the forehead to the eyes, and around the neck to the shoulders.
This was of leather and resembled the other in appearance, but it contained the receiver of the wireless telephone, enabling the flierto hear what was spoken to him in an ordinary tone of voice several miles away.
Not only is the temperature of the air likely to be many degrees below zero at the heights which war planes attained, but the flier must face this bitter cold in the gale of wind that is never blowing less than 100 miles per hour.
This development resulted in an output for the flier that became standard.
They sped down below the level of the top of the hull and the vast sheets of plate seemed to flow past the port of the flier like a river of steel.
From above, however, the third flier joined with devastating fury.
Underwood caught sight of the small three-man flier atop a low rise, a mile from the museum.
Simultaneously, they poured from the ship, swept over the remaining flier in a wave of destruction and dropped it onto the ground forces.
The flier was beneath them, and its pilots had time to look up and see the blasting fire that poured through the transparent bubble over them.
Almost instantly, a lock opened behind the unsuspecting police flier and three scooters darted out, their riders firing a deadly stream which came to a focus on the tail of the flier.
Underwood hauled out the weapons as the flier darted swiftly toward the field.
But now the secondflier was rounding the hull and the three scooters were spotted.
A sudden blossom of flame sent up a plume of black smoke and the flier nosed Earthward without its occupants knowing what had struck.
The two running men, one with bandaged arm and the other with bloodsmeared face, and the white-faced girl were attracting unwelcome attention, but at last they came to the rise where the flier lay, and climbed in.
Turning, he spoke to the German flier in his own language.
As the men sought to launch the rubber boat, they made a concerted rush for the German flier who was to be taken aboard the waiting submarine.
Jerry told us that an escaped flier from a Canadian prison camp may be hiding somewhere near here," Penny resumed, wandering to the window.
Do you think Mrs. Deline has been aiding that flier who escaped from a Canadian prison camp?
Scarcely had his tiny flier come to rest upon the broad landing-deck of the flagship ere he was bounding up the stairway to the deck where we stood.
Straight for his flier he would leap while those of his comrades who fought near by would rush to cover his escape.
What his plans were I could only guess, but that they were sinister was evidenced by the fact that only his most trusted servitors accompanied us upon the flier to the Temple of Reward.
In another second the waters of Omean closed above my head, and the three of us were making for the little flier a hundred yards away.
Quickly we glided toward a small flier which lay furthest from the battling warriors.
I was about to ask Kantos Kan to prosecute a further search for her when a flier from the flagship of the fleet arrived at the Xavarian with an officer bearing a message to Kantos Kan from Arrras.
From the deck of the Xavarian we four, Carthoris, Tars Tarkas, Xodar, and I, were transferred to a lesser flier to be transported to quarters within the Temple of Reward.
At a distance of several miles I caused the fleet to be halted, and from there Carthoris went ahead alone upon a one-man flier to reconnoitre.
I was thoroughly familiar with the mechanism of every known make of flier on Barsoom.
The fastest flier of the Heliumetic Navy could not quickly enough have carried me far from this hideous creature.
If we can board her we can at least make a memorable run for liberty," and then he went on to describe to me the equipment of the boat; her engines, and all that went to make her the flier that she was.
