In the second volume Tom and Jack proved their right to be called first-class air pilots by battling with success against Hun fliers.
Great was the relief of the three pilotson learning that their machines had not been in the list of those scrapped.
It was football tactics over again on a huge scale, as learned by most of those young pilots in their schooldays at home.
In particular the daring air pilots who so often took great hazards were in peril.
Other pilots said the boy seemed to be possessed of a spirit such as they had never known him to show before.
As customary, the pilots and observers themselves took one last survey of certain particular features where experience told them there was the most reason to anticipate trouble.
It'd be a shame to let them do what their pilots failed in, and blow up a part of our hangar field here.
A fine example to set to other pilots in our unit, or any of the doughboys in fact.
So they had a really delightful time of it, and the three young air pilots found it most difficult to break away when the last minute of their leave had expired.
On being told that such a mode of navigation was utterly impracticable for the large English ships, and that such pilots would be of no use to us, he begged to be allowed the remainder of the day to enquire for others.
Determining now to avail ourselves of the advice given by the magistrate of Chu-san, and to navigate from port to port, we here procured two new pilots to carry the ships to Mee-a-taw.
The pilotswere as ignorant of our situation as the meanest sailor in the squadron.
And don't forget our great Cabiri," put in Himilco; "what would all our Tyrian pilots do without their guidance and protection?
Our own ships were well provisioned, and I was pleased to have the opportunity of inviting him with his two mates and pilots to come on board the Ashtoreth, and to partake of our fresh meat, onions, dried figs, cheese and wine.
Some of them thought it was Madeira, others the rock of Cintra in Portugal; the pilots said it was the coast of Spain, the Admiral thought it was the Azores; but at any rate it was land of some kind.
On Monday, September 17th, four days after Columbus had noted it, the other pilots noted the declination of the needle, which they had found on taking the position of the North star.
There were three brothers then in this family--Martin Alonso, Vincenti Yanez, and Francisco Martin, all pilots themselves and owners of ships.
The Admiral said he was seventy-five leagues to the south of Flores; Vincenti Pinzon and the pilots thought that they had passed the Azores and were in the neighbourhood of Madeira.
With his usual secrecy he said nothing about it; perhaps he was waiting to see if the pilots on the other ships had noticed it, but apparently they were not so exact in their observations as he was.
Twenty-five pilots in the last month have been killed by wings dropping off.
The precision, exactitude and regularity of the news brought in by its members are evidence of their perfect organization and also of the perfect training of the pilots and the observers.
This has been so far successful that in five cases German pilots or observers have been shot while in the air and their machines brought to ground.
There must be plenty of red-haired pilots in our part of the country.
In another second the gun went off with a loud explosion which even the pilots could hear.
Louise immediately offered her services, and in less than five minutes the young pilots had washed their faces and were ready to start.
But it's always safer for two pilots to go together.
Just before he left, a radio message had been received from the Spring City Flying School, asking all pilots and mechanics to look out for a stolen Waco.
The two principal pilots made out that they were one hundred and fifty leagues nearer Spain than he knew to be the case.
The same day the pilots went on board the ships, one accompanying Paulo da Gama, and the other, as also the Mozambique pilot, Vasco da Gama.
It is probable that they might have heard from some English pilots who were in the service of the United Provinces, that Drake had discovered an open sea to the south of Terra del Fuego.
He then, running alongside the other ships, told their crews that he had put his master and pilots in irons, and promised that he would conduct them back in safety.
The Spanish pilots taken in the prizes were warned that if they proved treacherous they would be shot, and the rest of the prisoners carried off to England.
Some of the pilots also mutinied, and wanted to put back to Calecut; but Vasco da Gama had them placed in irons, and undertook the guidance of the ships himself.
The monsoon having just commenced, the pilots advised that the ships should proceed on their voyage.
Their pilots possessed nautical instruments greatly differing from their own, but equally useful; indeed, they were not much inferior in skill to the Portuguese navigators.
From what we know, the pilotsof this outfit keep pretty much to themselves.
The shambling party drew closer and he saw that she was constructed with a windowed cabin forward to house pilots and passengers.
Martinengo's minions are taking no chances with pilots pulling anything phoney on their own hook!
Being detained as usual at the Inlet, several of the pilots and other inhabitants of Portsmouth came on board, and the ribald jest, the oath, and the dram cup passed freely round.
Pilots should be a happy as well as a useful class of men.
The Chinese pilots did not know the coast of Borneo.
The men were as completely in the dark as the pilots and the now completely recovered Slashaway, who was following Lawton about like a doting seal.
The pilots are standing by to start the rotaries the instant we lurch.
Directly behind him, close to a bulkhead chronometer, which was clicking out the seconds with unabashed regularity, was a misty blue visiplate that merely had to be switched on to bring the pilots into view.
The two pilots appeared side by side on the screen, sitting amidst a spidery network of dully gleaming pipe lines and nichrome humidification units.
One of thepilots leaned tensely forward, his shoulders jerking.
That was two covers that could be slid over the cockpits, so that the pilots would be protected in bad weather.
Pilots were sent out to search for them, and Pilot Clegg found them in Moose Factory, safe and sound.
One of the pilots was killed; the other pilot and his passenger were badly hurt.
Well, Lindy was one of the best mail pilots that the Robertson corporation had, in fact, he was their chief pilot.
She was so small that her head did not reach over the top of the cockpit, and the other pilots called her 'the headless pilot.
He advised them in buying planes, and chose their pilots for them, and in addition, had to sell flying to the country.
Floyd Bennett, whom everybody loved, and one of the greatest pilots of his day, had flown his last flight.
By the end of the following year she had over 200 military machines, with a competent staff of pilotsand observers.
It has given us a splendid force of trained pilots and mechanics.
It was not until actual war service brought definite demands from the pilots and definite criticisms of the bad features of the airplanes in use, that the designers were able to turn out machines of the highest efficiency.
But the next few years are going to see many new commercial duties opening to the airplane, and the pilots who guide these great ships of peace and industry will no doubt be chosen by just as high standards as our military aviators.
To-day the name of Nieuport is familiar to every one, for the little scout machines carried some of the bravestpilots of France and America to victory in the air battles of the Great War.
In the sham warfare the army pilots flew over the enemy's lines and brought back astonishingly complete reports of the movements of troops, disposition of forces, etc.
Now, with many fast machines and trained pilots freed from war duties, a system of routes which will traverse our vast territory has been laid out.
Yet for all the desperate German struggle for supremacy, her machines and her pilots did not prove the equals of the Allies in the air.
With darkness both pilots were forced to make landings, but Paulhan was far ahead, and the prospect of victory began to wane for the plucky young English flier.
There were many things which the pilots asked for.
The plane which he pilots will no doubt be so designed as to possess unusual stability.
Like the many famous pilots who have driven it, it has learned much by experience, and it has changed considerably in outward appearance since the summer of 1914.
When the vessel was examined, it was found that it had received considerable damage, and the pilots pressed the king to leave it; but seeing that they themselves did not purpose to abandon the ship, he determined to remain in it.
France had then no marine, the sailors andpilots were almost all Spaniards or Italians.
When the hardy seamen of Great Britain first began to steer their ships across the line, they were undoubtedly accompanied by pilots and mariners of the Mediterranean.
The Austrians were "brave and skilful pilotsbadly organized".
As regards the enemy, his estimate of the German air personnel is that its pilots were "mediocre, with a few brilliant exceptions".
Then the pilots of the place put out brisk and leapt on board; "Why, what hope or chance have ships like these to pass?
When we got near the town, we divided, one of our pilots going with each division.
He set one of his pilots ashore upon Cape Goncalves for mutinous practices.
The king despatched a caravel, under the command of one of the ablest pilots of his marine, to follow the track indicated.
De Weert found his ship almost unseaworthy, without a master, short of hands, and with two pilots quite too old to be efficient.
Obtaining pilots for the Indian coast, he departed on the 7th of August, and arrived at Calicut on the 13th of September.
The pilots were instructed to take in sail after midnight, and a velvet pourpoint was promised to him who should first see land.
He put the ringleaders and pilots in irons, and, assisted by his brother and those who remained faithful to their duty, stood night and day to the helm.
The king sent the promised pilot on his return; he proved to be as deeply skilled in the art of navigation as any of the pilots of Europe.
These fellows richly deserved a kicking, but the pilots are innocent of any fault but inability to keep pace with the rapid changes of the river-course.
The kicking of the unfortunate pilots was not a pleasant sight, but there were sometimes comic incidents attached to our periodic groundings.
At such times, steam-boats, with skilful pilots aboard, safely follow the channel, which avoids the rocks of the river.
A lantern was hung above the bow of the boat to show the pilots of steamers our position.
How the pilots of these stern-wheel freighters managed to guide these heavily loaded barges against the treacherous current was a mystery to me.
The pilotswere all Indians, and they used the forestaff and quadrant for their observations.
The boats are also roofed in with iron; and the pilots who steer the vessel stand incased, as it were, under an iron cupola.
The two pilots up in the cupola were destroyed in this terrible manner.
Even the pilots confessed, which they avoid as much as possible for fear of disheartening the crew.
He said that it was his opinion, and that of all the pilots on these waters, that the Mississippi could not be opened by the gunboats.
I determined to inform myself what the pilots thought of the gunboat expedition then preparing to descend the river.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pilots" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
