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A postal worker makes a night run to Quebec on the airship Postal Packet 162 with captain Purnall and his crew. During the run, they encounter another airship in the lane reserved for mail but that is losing altitude. A mark boat is called for assistance, but it responds it cannot quit station.
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The mail-clerks are sorting the Winnipeg, Calgary, and Medicine Hat bags; but there is a pack of cards ready on the table. Suddenly a bell thrills; the engineers run to the turbine-valves and stand by; but the spectacled slave of the Ray in the U-tube never lifts his head.
16 giu 2009 · The Antwerp Night Mail makes her signal and rises between two racing clouds far to port, her flanks blood-red in the glare of Sheerness Double Light. The gale will have us over the North Sea in half an hour, but Captain Purnall lets her go composedly—nosing to every point of the compass as she rises.
Night Mail. This is the night mail crossing the Border, Bringing the cheque and the postal order, Letters for the rich, letters for the poor, The shop at the corner, the girl next door. Pulling up Beattock, a steady climb: The gradient's against her, but she's on time. Past cotton-grass and moorland boulder.
16 giu 2009 · With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D. by Rudyard Kipling. Read now or download (free!) Similar Books. Readers also downloaded… In Science Fiction. About this eBook. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
- Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936
- 09008570
- Leyendecker, Frank X., 1877-1924
It is the year 2000, and – powered by ‘Fleury’s Ray’ – a host of transatlantic aircraft, most of them lighter-than-air (airships), are flying across the air waves. The narrator is on board a mail plane, en route from London to Quebec.
With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D. Rudyard Kipling. 3.06. 161 ratings38 reviews. Reprint of Kipling's delightful science fiction tale, first written in 1904, imagining a then-impossible overnight air flight from London to Canada, which takes place in December of the year 2000.
