Show ING flun 11 lieutenant PAT OBRIEN by pat alva u arlen SYNOPSIS APTER introductory I pat obrien of kilo in writing the story I 1 his advent uries CHAPT LIt 11 atlis of his ita the royal corps lit in and its tr arter to france for ac alve duty A scout sonic called a scout has no bomb dropping or recon not cring to do ill duty Is in jim t to tight or fir 04 09 the tile order was givin to a you are expect expected eI to pick lights a and n 1 I not wait until hey they corne conic to yoa yoal I 1 MCI bomi bomb droppert drop peri go out over fit h I 1 lilies in ill tile tilt daytime time a scout F aluad i rt A usually coti rt them the loibl dropp tra ly fly nt at ali alilia lit tele fact let and ft u lift or so alane e them theril it if lit anny time should be nt tit tacked it Is 1 the tile duty of tho scouts to and curry carry on the tilt tile onier r of hi boglub droppers drop pera to ir I 1 on bombs anti not to light I 1 tl lilt V have to t q here Is I 1 n tanie at rn 1 90 out nt ner oer tho the lines on oil this work ork in tile daytime IllY tIllie alint they tiro not attacked nt tit sonic some time or other and so tile scout usually pluitt of work nork to do in addition to these thee attacks lim sever tho the squadron Is invariably under constant bombard aunt filin tho the ground but that docant ilo orr us cry much RH me enoi pret tv til ito how to avoid being lilt from that quarter on mi first flight after joining the I 1 taken out over the Jl IJU tUto to ket et it look nt tit things billip out ni 1 c I 1 in case I 1 uis mai cr lost boente th tit fors firsts ts indis slid othir landmarks nod and apt thu the gentral lay ot of i tho ithe land one thing that anns impressed td upon er co na the locution location of it ill alio hospital so u that in lit case I 1 aa cor oun did and had tho the nth to pick 1 1 I could lund land us as its tir ns possible to n hospital kil these allws tit cg it new pilot roti dur 7 is il ita hie 1 first two or three aleu das ns after 1 w SK it I 1 in adrun g our rt regular bilar routine ana to wo la macli tell of tu tuo hour hours duration ter doing our regular patrol patr it nna it i to ho olt off on our oin hook it if wu we lelnd NIsh td bo litford fore going 1 back to tho ho 1 I 1 soon found out that in bolua dion mas iab sunn sollie hot squadron oili out ibias lit b I 1 uin almost allia 18 s to special duty ork nork lucli as shooting up I 1 trenches tren dies nt at 11 height of fifty feet fro froni I 1 the ground 1 I 1 alck IN k d my baptism into this kind of work ork tho third blino I 1 aint nt out over and will I 1 it tu to 0 le aho vho ito li Is hanat ring for I 1 rii runt tit ion ou tire not boffl 1 apt to be at lit b hostile aircraft from ti liole 1 but ou nio 1110 1410 pt 1 kun gun clr birtt froin bilo bilon I 1 haw sun slin soine of our collie ln lc fi flom this tilt nork ork i io u riddled mill bullets that 1 Non dired hou lio they held to alii afro c e out ou onu ono 0 of ilise job 4 anve arv bere inlet cartful to bee that our alro tre in lit condition biell uso tin tilt told in the 1 aar balad uis su bad in lit I 1 one shortly aftin I 1 colnul the squadron three of us started ocr the antl line of 01 our 1 mn accord wo we hooft four tinui chitin machines talo batora t coming doard ua u this tj ito oi n machine achino in Is attl b the huns for air artl tiller lleo ork anti bomb dropping r and ise c kne tilt siere on oil ml ahlf bint rich machine had a HUU gun li olli I front worked b the tho pilot and the oll on birr also lind it glin alth ith wilch in lie could epta oil all around U N hen vc c first the hun our machinist inac hints are A re about six lull tull d back of tha the aliu a und i liln high up in ili the sh k the stin I 1 its so 90 that the tilt ticino could not P us I 1 1 picked out three of the machines inachin ei annl dor doe down don vu oh them thein I 1 mant ent right b D tl ti man I 1 d for atit and anti lails lili sar in the roar rear feat cat kept 1 I 1 it I 1 m to heat beat the liand not one aa my shots tu tot k its i 1 I 11 ent nt ti d n under inder him but 1 I turned a IJ 1 1 it L hirr it burst ft ct bull all I 1 do it hf he t tit in lit a tig tiow tio e ne tle on oil of 11 inge jigs 1 one va and one aa I 1 qan a blin crash to the ground I 1 atil that 1 11 1 id nd got luy lay first littile lit tile aircraft ono one of ij IL coln badts vis equally auca lu tho tile oth r atto 0 0 gt anian 3 got way m ny NL t chasid theal thern back until thin got atoo too hot fir us by ri aion of the appear nure of othar gennan machines and ie callad tt it a dai this 1 tid 1113 appetite for more inore of the I amu time biti arid I 1 did not lutu long to alt bit it nu be sit wll 11 ti it esplain hire just eliat hat n spInal ng liot noot bind IQ 1 A few tar ago a the tile tig not dhe aas iia one of the most dangerous things a R pilot C could attempt and many men wen N vere ere killed getting into thi this appin and not how flow to come collie out of it ID 10 enet lot 10 3 of allou that when one once you got into dimp divo cheri was no nill I 1 y LA lar r r spon s h biml ia ny or conting out or it n it is 1 now used however hoever in actual tile that are used la in r frince rince arc are controlled in two ways loth both by hands and feet the feet working the oke or rudd rudar bar which controls tho the rudder thata tile machine the tile lateral control contro im fore and aft which cause the machine to rise or fouer low er are tire controlled ly by a contrivance Mince called a joy stick if leing in lit the air a pilot should reli tise hie his hold on this stick it will III gradually Rm dually come conic toward tho the pilot in it that position lie tile macli lne will begill to climb S so if it a pilot la Is shot mid and 10 loses control of tilt tills joy stick lila fits lilain to ail and lind jintil the tingle 1 formed le be too tot reat for it to continue or tin mi motor to pull the tile tite for a fraction of it 0 it stop and tile motor then liking the lita iest it c alm ilm tilt nose of the ma bachint chInt to fall rd pitching dinn 1 it lit 11 terrific rate of matil uniti spinning sit t tho tile pull cubin thile if the motor it still it naturally Inc nasiM the tile api id lilt it more than it ollila ol lill if the tile motor win off and there 14 1 great that the tilt vine inn will double up causing the ho rn macl iino to bronk apart spins tire model with the motor on you aru tire dropping dropp like a bal being dropped out 0 the oky and tho the ith vt vIi ilk it lt inari ms with the power ot of tic tile motor this thin spinning noo nose dive has boon been husid in lit stunt lying in rant earn ears lut but i Is ii i now putto blell ux its liy by pilots in getting amity front hostile finif for ulian lien a mon it Is jillso almost at to lilt and the i in r tc c z straight nt live anti antna bior tile in enit hund hundreds redi of nn an hour a nash mass of flame looking like a brilliant comet in the tilt sky the spinning nose dive dle la Is used to greater advant advantage uge by the gen germans nana than by our own oun pilots for the nason that when a fight geta gets too liot hot for the gernian Gir nian nitin he lie M rut put lila machine in a epin spin and ua o 0 the chances ire tire nine ont of ten that ve ue are fighting tigh ting oer gernian territory he lie f spins down out of our runge range q out before he lie reached the ground fill get on home to lili airdrome it I 1 t iq 1 to follow him down don iti the lines for ou oil could in all he I 1 shot down doin before ou cali atkaln nItI tude to cross the line rigali opi illi it often hali halioris pris that a pilot will bo be 11 anothy lie ile seta it peart to spin pin P per er imp they ire art fifteen or thousand feit fett in lit lit tilt air tind the tilt hostile machine spins don for of fl att t lie ile thinks ho lim hit tin other he anti 1004 u halile happy that lithas brought liron lit donn alun lie ile n ports thi rutn e to the liot atil i 1 11 i li liot ilot don frh enemy hut but eslien hen the tile of the squadron coine collie in lit mith their aport or some artillery observation balloon sends in a report it dm lops 4 that when it feu ln lit indred fe fet t from front ill alie ground the tile gruppo supposed aed dead nuin man in the tile cpin lilts colne out olit of the tile spin find gone gono merrily on lila fits vay uny for his airdrome III captured by the huns I 1 shall not jarliv forget the 17 ath of 4 so I 1 A W 19 1 W I 1 11 t IL N W vp VI MIP J an lat a 1 4 0 A obreen 0 standing beside the first machine in which he saw active service tile attach aulks lit n tin tilt Is going ilon to cornin lu in the tile spin this is nil nii ilah il ai when nhen n ninn li 14 our hl 4 mn oun nue in lit can right lila hij and come collie out of it at if it hn ill iiii av conr ir tarlo tor tin the ciuni bould oal follow turn nini down und alun 1 lip came out of th spin tit tl 1 be him of th anti lolila bahoot film don alth lilt tive it Is 1 it ka 1 1 n ol 01 don into R loud and Is 1 fusul tr aftin b 1 both alile 41 but it arkill and cour 1 tit alie pilot junking it if ho lie i t r to to conic out alm A spin 11 belu enade b 1 it pilot catli like alk a it apin kaiti that 1 Is 14 4 lunde ninde ha I 1 n insa hink being hot doun iao olio otie luver anois hetler het lur it la Is forced or intentional until the pilot cither him machine and comes out of it rr cr irah tnt ir nh to tilt ground r ake dl iti nillar to tills this one iq 1 knonk us its just jurt the tile plain dhe A tunie for e chrit a pilot thins at a height of qt fernl ertil feet la Is shot hot loaia control of his lili and the nose of the plane starts down town alth ith the motor full ull on lie Is going aa at a i apted and in ninny many ingance instances 4 Is 19 going 0 o and that the speed Is 19 too print for tin tilt machine becnice it was neer constructed construct eil to withstand ith stand the enor forced against the lie and they consequently crumple up if too in nn an attempt to straighten the tit inn hlin the should le be collie liffie ted ns as often lapp ns in tring tu to bring hrin a out 0 of f a dive the strain is iq again too great on the tile v ans in und and re Is the same saine disastrous estrous result a when lien the lie atrol tank 14 1 punctures hy by a tracer ballet from another machine in the nir air the pinn plane that Is hit lift catches 4 on taro clr and either ireta into a bulo or a A liu i killed io in ill tilt double stated mated ill achille in ill thu tilt another in the tL nIng annd thin I 1 aias ruptured inela ni in self elf I 1 may line sp nt enort dis in lit my life but I 1 cant bucall nn tin just now that morning in ill cro ing the lino line on oil tarl iti ornIng I 1 nolle d two ahrman b I 1 that ns as soon at a t in tit patrol its I 1 ifould go olt oft PI ci ilij n anil flook anil and see u hit a german balloon looked aiho alle nt at close quart quarters antion lire tire bed li both idla td s in tit uni on junction ditl ith tile A man situ sits up tit in the leloon loon kit it arid dirt 11 ll cam the firing of f tin tilt glins broin fits point of stin int mt ne lit can follow folio the ork of his on ori nr artiller tiller etli it ro re digree tit mc curtic and nt at the sanu saint inic lit can the eno ni ina and them thein the tilt uri tr brood nt tit this work anti tilt lir um n kwit grent number of 0 there A it aas ns dered a str important pert part of our bork ork to kip thein out of the tile ak k eltoro are two nr of colne after a lullion in a tua chint one of them Is to crosa thi the lines nt tit a inn lo 10 fly ing ao 0 o near tle ground ill tint it the tile man with the gun cant bothar you you 11 13 along until ou on gsa to th tha bleiel of the tile bullion and if in tho the tilt haf not draun the th balloon don lon aou a optie fire on oil it tin annl I 1 the bullets you use will tet ct it on ore if efey land tho rho other ens Is to lly over when here ou oil knott the balloons to ile b put our n machine n ch ine in a spin so that the can t h hit i t sou ret get abone them spin over oer the balloon and then open fire in coins going back oser the line you crois cross cro is nt at a te few hundred feet this Is one ot of the harde st jobi in the service there la Is lead less danger la in an eme stir craft |