Air Wonder Stories, August 1929 — page 65: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Tt would have been easy for them to have left the Merlin in irons with their gas. But we're going to have another cut at them, First, we must refill our tanks at Mogador, and get.a message radioed from the station there to the President and to Sir Thomas Basildon.” “But, Jimmy,” Dan objected. “If they can stop . your engines once, they can do it again. How_are you going to get over that?” “I’m not quite sure,” said I. “I-think the notion is to get well above them, then it doesn’t matter whether the engine is stopped or not—a glide will do all that’s required. Next time, I’m not going to waste ammuni- tion on the envelope—they’re using some uninflammable gas—that’s plain. I’m going straight for the stern engines. Did = notice that the airship’s steering was done by them THE ARK OF THE COVENANT 159 “No.” “Fact, all the same?” Milliken put in. “The whole of the stern cabin works on a swivel.” “Tt’s so, Dan,” I said. “And that’s where I'll bust them, or bust ourselves in the attempt. We might have the luck, too, to take them sitting.” “How do you get there?” Dan demanded. “It’s my notion that the airship we attacked works from a base at the back of Morocco. I’m banking -enough on the idea, anyhow, to advise Sir Thomas Basildon to get as many scouts concentrated round the coast as he can. If the airship comes out again, we may be able to crowd.so many planes round her that the ray you imagine will have more to handle than it is able. In any case, the place wants going over thoroughly.” Aviation Science-Fiction Readers E have a big treat in store for you. Be sure to get the August issue of SCIENCE WONDER STORIES, the sister magazine to AIR WONDER STORIES magazine. The greatest science-fiction magazine in print, nothing can compare with it. Practically all of the authors. who contribute to AIR WONDER STORIES are also contrib- utors to SCIENCE WONDER STORIES. SCIENCE WONDER STORIES is DRAMATIZED MECHANICS. It mirrors the world of the future, And if you-are interested in aeronautics and flying, do not fail to read: The Problems of Space Flying A series of articles now running in SCIENCE WONDER STORIES. They are not fiction stories, but serious technical articles by one of the. greatest engineers of Germany, who tackles the problems of space flying from a practical engineering standpoint. Is it possible to travel to-distant worlds? Captain Noordung answers this question, not only in the affirmative, but shows us how we can do it. Himself an inventor, he gives us some of the most astonishing new inventions of how space flying will become a reality. Q \ \\ \ \ N By CAPTAIN HERMANN Noorbuna, A.D., M.E., Berlin 5 Don't fail to see the announcement on page 100 of this issue. N § j- ; = 5 Las , teat MA) se ies tnd