DOLPHIN
A little later they came to where, sitting all alone, was a rather clumsy-looking plane, which Armbruster said was a B. E. They were known to all the war flyers as Quirks. Turning to Kiwi, Armbruster remarked:
“Kiwi, there’s the plane that your Dad learned to fly in, and I am going to borrow it and see how well you can handle it. It’s a clumsy old thing, but you will love it before you get through with it. Let’s go and look up the pilot it belongs to, and if he says the word I’ll take you for a flip right now.”
Kiwi’s excitement began to rise, and even though they had not been able to finish their flight to India, he began to feel that learning to fly would be compensation enough.
As they strolled back in the direction of the group that surrounded the Skipper, pilots called to them from all sides. A boy among all these older pilots was considerable of a curiosity, and they all seemed envious when they learned that Armbruster was to teach him to fly.
FOKKER D.7.
They rejoined the Skipper and his friends, and Armbruster started off to find Hamer, who flew the Quirk, to get his permission to use the plane.
Just then Kiwi heard Thorne say:
“What happened to little Jimmie Dugan? We heard at one time that he would join us, but no one has ever seen him. He certainly started for here.”