The AviatorA downed pilot and his passenger, an eleven-year-old girl, struggle to survive in the Rocky Mountains in the year 1928. |
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... Elko - two hundred pounds of mail and one passenger . Female . The weather had been good with some high stuff . Thin sun visible through same . No problem . Twenty - five degrees . Too cold for snow . Good enough , he thought . The ...
... Elko - two hundred pounds of mail and one passenger . Female . The weather had been good with some high stuff . Thin sun visible through same . No problem . Twenty - five degrees . Too cold for snow . Good enough , he thought . The ...
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... Elko : -Fourteen had taken off almost two hours behind schedule . He had not returned , nor had Elko had any positive response from those few people they had managed to contact along the route . Boise the same . Fourteen had never ...
... Elko : -Fourteen had taken off almost two hours behind schedule . He had not returned , nor had Elko had any positive response from those few people they had managed to contact along the route . Boise the same . Fourteen had never ...
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... Elko and it sounds just like that . " " I hardly think that's what we heard . " He continued his crawl toward the entrance . He had never before heard such a sound and he did not like it . His spirits rose as he emerged into the full ...
... Elko and it sounds just like that . " " I hardly think that's what we heard . " He continued his crawl toward the entrance . He had never before heard such a sound and he did not like it . His spirits rose as he emerged into the full ...
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aircraft Airmail airplane asked beneath Boise breath Capitol Peak chocolate chute cloud cockpit crawled dark decided eased Elko engine ERNEST K eyes face feet fingers fire flight flown flying the mails fuselage glove going hand head hear heard Heather helmet hole horse hurt Jerry Joan of Arc keep knees landing letter listened little girl looked magneto mail planes mail sack mind minutes Miss Moravia knew Moravia thought morning mountain moved never night Number Fourteen Okay overcast Palmer method parachute Pasco passenger pill pilot plateau Probosky ravia realized route Santa Rosa range screaming seat seemed shale shelter side silence sleep slip-stream slipped slowly smile smoke snow snow squalls somehow somewhere sound squalls Stearman Stiller stood straps Swallow teddy bear telephone tell things told took Tracy tried trying turned voice waited whimpering wind wing wreckage