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1922
1922 - 0097.PDF
51 i <* M " A GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE " From the original by Roderic Hill.) The picture shows a fast single-seater customs aeroplane about to settle on the alighting deck of a big air liner. At a signal from the customs official, who incidentally files his own aeroplane, the captain of the air liner brings his ship to a steady speed and the pneumatic trap on the alighting deck is set ready. Gliding a little faster than the liner, the customs aeroplane approaches over the tail. As it nears the trap it reduces speed slightly until, except for a lateral swaying, it hovers apparently motionless. For a few seconds the "dactyls " on its under-carriage flicker in the jaws of the trap; then there is a metallic clang and the little aeroplane is safe, moored fast to the liner. The customs official slips out from his cockpit, and, crouching in the wind, makes bis way forward. When 50 feet in front of the trap he suddenly' disappears down a well, where we leave him to commence his round of necessary, If unpleasant, duties. r\
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