It told of a mechanic’s blunder and the pilot’s desperate and successful
fight to save his passengers in the closed cabin from death by a crash
landing or by drowning in the bay.
And it concluded:
The man who stood upright upon the wing of a pilotless plane and
snatched fuel from the sky, saving lives with a mixture of
courage and skill that would be hard to find even among
transport pilots, was King Horn. Horn has crashed thirteen ships
without injuring or endangering anyone but himself. He was
keeping his record unstained.
There was no further question of King Horn’s future as a transport
pilot.
[Transcriber’s Note: This story appeared in the November 7, 1929
issue of _The Popular Magazine_.]
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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