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the machines spoken of as "buses," "gee-gees," "butterflys", the first being good American, the latter two my cockney friends' expression.  He has seen planes in every degree of flight and it all seems so smooth that he thinks it's like traveling in an automobile.  The ground school has furnished him with a series of hopes and longings obtained from close association with the machines at the rigging classes, and from the glib lips of the officers who stuffed him with every conceivable sort of story.  The aeroplane is a delight all around and the day that the first flight takes place is one to be marked in history.  At the first camps he investigates he looks with an expression of "gee", at the boys (like himself) who take to the air alone.  He wants to go along too, but its a waiting game with everything in the army and he has to bide his time.