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case. [[strikethrough]]??[[/strikethrough]] A number of ^[[loose]] bolts, and the wheel and gasing kept me down an hour.

At 3:15 I started for Coblenz and since the wind was in my favor I didn't stop en route for more gas at Metz or Treves. It was too hot down low so I flew above the clouds at 12000 and had a comfortable time of it. There were just enough clouds to make it interesting and not enough to obscure my good vision and keep speculation on the points along the old happy hunting grounds in the St. Mihiel sali