Crossword-Solution: VULTEE 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The senior officer stood up, and as though the gods had waited for that exact instant, the Vultee's Wright-Cyclone outside broke forth with its song of mighty power.

God bless you, and all kinds of happy landings until we meet again in Natal, Brazil." If they happened to be listening to the colonel's parting words, the gods of war, and death, and doom, must have had quite a laugh for themselves! CHAPTER FIVE _Whispering Death_ Shifting to a slightly more comfortable position in the Vultee's cockpit seat, Dave Dawson absently drummed the fingers of one hand on the side of the cockpit and stared down at the sky-blue Caribbean Sea rolling far beneath his wings.

Several miles off the Vultee's left wing tip were the Leeward and Windward islands of the West Indies jutting up out of the blue water.

Just the same, I hate to think of going stark, raving mad in the cockpit of a Wright-powered Vultee." "Well, if that's all that's bothering you, you can put it out of your mind at once," Freddy snapped, "because you were that way a long, long time ago!" "Oh, yeah?" Dawson shouted.

But five minutes later the little twinge of uneasiness that had come to him melted away, because the copperish gray moved westward and not up northward toward the Vultee.