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Monday July 15 ‘18.

Got out the voyage hangar
at 4:15 this morning to get a
machine for my voyage.
I got a machine, but it was
too cloudy to start at daylight.
And it rained a little during the
fornoon. It cleared up so
that I could start at 2 P.M.
I started out in a machine
that had just come from the
repair shop, and had never
been tested. She turned up
alright on the ground so
I took off. The buss ran
fine up to 400 meters when
my engine started missing.
I tried to climb on up, but could
only get to 600 and no further.
By that time I was almost to