CHAPTER VI

SECOND ATTEMPT TO FLY ROUND BRITAIN

Harry Recovers—And Takes Charge Again—An Early Start—Almost

Unseen by the Starter—Thick Fog—Behind Time at

Ramsgate—An Explosion—A Favourable Breeze—But Bumpy

Air off Cromer—Scarborough—A Forced Landing—Five

Hundred Miles in a Day—Resting at Beadnell Overnight—The

Second Day—A Spiral Glide at Aberdeen—A Terrible

Journey to Oban—The Third Day—A Water-logged Float—Another

Forced Landing—Ireland—“A Piece of Ghastly Bad

Luck”—Kauper Goes to Hospital 93

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