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I tried out #7 for 25 minutes this morning. She worked beautifully and was quite satisfactory except for the fact that this type of machine is still too new for me to accomplish much ^[[out of the ordinary in flying.]] [[strikethrough]] illegible [[/strikethrough]] I did one dive [[strikethrough]] sidesli [[/strikethrough]] that was [[underline]] registered by the air speed indicator, [[/underline]] as [[strikethrough]]5??  [[/strikethrough]] ^[[over 2 miles a minute. I think I'll get accustomed to the trickery of the little dear soon. Our patrol work begins this week if our remaining ships and necessary spare parts show up.

June 27, 1918

The bright moonlight nights have been good for bombing lately and both Hun and Allied machines have been having -and will still have, I suppose - their fling. Nancy has been pestered two or three times. Last night searchlights and