They understood our questioning and indicated in the affirmative endeavoring to give us a full explanation of the combustive action and its resultant power, but we were unable to completely understand the details. From what we could get, the action within this chamber is similar to the cyclotron, very small but powerful.
Then Bob wanted to know if they used all four engines all the time while travelling.
"Yes," answered the pilot.
Then he called our attention underneath the ship where there are what we would call stabilizers, six of them in all, that permit the ship to stand in space.
After thus looking over the ship, our friends asked if we would like to take a little flight in this giant.
George eagerly accepted the invitation for all of us including our Moonalite companions, for we have been wanting to do that very thing ever since we first saw the ship land in this city on the Moon.
We are in the air now and the takeoff was so smooth that we didn't realize we were leaving the ground. One outstanding fact we notice, there isn't any vibration like most ships have. It is just like gliding. There were some heavy clouds drifting over the airport and the pilot pulled right into them. We felt no effect within the ship whatever and we have come out of the clouds directly over the city.
We have lowered over the city to within five hundred feet, then we went back up to fifteen hundred feet. Turns were executed so easily that we did not realize they were being made. The pilot isn't wearing any headgear and he tells us that none of their pilots wear such things, explaining they observe and fly only by their instruments at all times.
At fifteen hundred feet altitude the ship was stopped. As she is hovering in space, these propellers or stabilizers underneath the ship are operating, but we can't hear them.
Now they have opened up a hatch, as we might call it, from within. This hatch is square and around it are four chairs on each side. We were all invited to be seated in these chairs. The hatch itself is a box-like affair containing a set of adjustable lenses operated on the same principle as that used in focusing binoculars. These are large enough so that all who may be seated in the chairs around the hatch can see through it equally well.