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he answered and half an hour later I was reving up the motor on the little devil er-darling, I mean.

The cockpit was a strange seat indeed. It showed me that the machine is blinder than most of those I have so far driven because its cockpit [[strikethrough]] [[or ravelle?]] as this term is coming to be known)[[/strikethrough]] is so wide and full of intricacies. One has at hand two gasoline cocks, a pressure cock, an altimeter, compass, switch, air pressure gauge, thermometer, tachometer, and then the [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] ^[[manettes]] or throttles. So one is rather busy thinking of all these things during the first flight.

I'm glad to say the trepidation that showed itself in rather shaky