THE BALLOON STRAFER

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 98, 19 January 1935, Page 23

THE BALLOON STRAFER

AERODROME ACROBATICS (By Cavell Nichol, aged 18, Wellington.) (Continued from Last Week.) The following day dawned very cloudy £“ had cooled considerably. His fast s ‘“Bte-seater tbc ever-busy mechanics an hour or so after the dawn patrol had g > _ drums of incendiary, were flitting about, filling up the petrol Lank, of bullets on the 8«» s > 8 leather flying coat, sauntered Corlast cigMette ° TCr the “AU ready, sir?” asked the mechanic, and Archie nodded as he settled himself in the narrow cockpit. “Contact?” yelled the mechanic. the propß.Wr, <1» ey.M« s hfeed, ,<>» l-J,'”V r S e »5 E the wind screechirig past Archie’s head like agae. He raised a “ d S-th2 ground doping Xtom “at aS’ speld andla, smite creased his foCe He H r e o S rto Steft for the last thing he wanted was the Germans knowing that he was on a Wanted theul « S‘ S, OTi clamation escaped his lips, as he saw three German ooservauon ::ss*£ —x making the wind moan mournfully. : .. . , nresence hlm- Rat-taLtat" The twin Lewis guns on Archie’s plane jumped Jolted HmHßßbb &«! .s Artlo bXI «»W t™> »• «'”> ”“' C h,s “ y to thc second balloon, which was dropping rapidly. ~ . <i n /i *>q R-ittat-tat' This balloon proved to be easier than the first and as howled toward it he was met with a withering blast of ma.clnne-gun fire The Tracer bullets went home as Archie banked round, and in afe S Sane “g earthward, machine’drome S a thought flashed into his mind. He’d show em how to stunt. And hethd! (The End.)