The War in the Air
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You play Bert Smallways, a bicycle mechanic in Bun Hill certain speed is the coming trade. Your brother Tom minds his battered garden and distrusts every balloon drifting overhead; your partner Grubb paints an aeroplane-repair sign before either of you has built or seen one. A soldier questioning the shop describes airships tested in secret abroad. Then an engine no one can place crosses the sky on rigid wings, Alfred Butteridge, meaning to land again by sunset, with a second, unmarked shape already turning to follow him.
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- Gravel from the SkyBun Hill