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this dashed gasoline?"- The tank was only punctured in half a dozen places and a shut-off entirely superfluous.

  The little black spot in the center, within 25 yds. of which the machine [[strikethrough]]must  [[/strikethrough]] ^[[had to]] come to rest with a "dead prop" (cut-off engine) would be covered with a couple of machines whose mechanics were trying to start the ^[[cranky]] engines again to get them out of the way. As there was no definite system about how many were in the air at once any number of planes were appearing out of the heavens to land. And since their only control was to maintain speed by their dive (the engine being "dead") a crash could be averted only by those on the

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