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both on the ground and the nose-heavy machine had raised tail up.

"How in T-i-m-e did [[underline]] that [[/underline]] happen?", I asked. The captain waived his arm in a deprecatory manner to indicate the wreck and uttered, "look at it!" I did and then began to howl because I had come to grief on my first real try and at a time within a few minutes of my own solo. [[underline]] That's [[/underline]] what made me mad, to think that I was so closely within reach of something I wanted to be real strongly, and had come yet so near and yet as far from attaining what a few hours previous seemed so out of reach. Well, I had my chance.

Captain said, "Oh, don't mind a thing like that. You'll have more than one crash before you'll be a flyer. It was all right. I thought you saw the pile and I thought myself we would clear it.