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100 1 _aMcSwiney, R. J.
245 1 0 _aIn mid-air
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aProduced from the Second January number, 1930, of The Popular Magazine.
500 _aRelease date is 2025-11-04
508 _aRoger Frank and Sue Clark
520 _aIn mid-air by R. J. McSwiney is a wartime aviation short story written in the early 20th century. It centers on a bomber pilot in World War I whose mission goes awry when his armed bomb fails to release properly, forcing him to choose between certain death and a final act of purposeful sacrifice. During a raid, pilot Charley Reid’s single heavy bomb detaches at the nose but stays hooked at the rear, hanging vertically and armed, battering his old biplane and making landing impossible. After futile attempts to shake it free and a fruitless exchange of messages with his airfield, he resolves to die usefully by crashing into a German headquarters chateau. Diving toward the target, the swinging bomb catches on roadside telephone wires, is torn off the hook, and slams into the chateau’s facade, detonating as Reid’s jolted plane clears the roof. He dodges ground fire, recrosses the lines, and lands, where mechanics lift his limp body from the cockpit, a peaceful smile on his face—his peril turned into an unintended but decisive strike. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: Street & Smith Corporation, 1929
653 _aShort stories
653 _aAir pilots, Military -- Fiction
653 _aWorld War, 1914-1918 -- Aerial operations -- Fiction
830 0 _aProduced from the Second January number, 1930, of The Popular Magazine.
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77176
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