None But Air by MORI Hiroshi

Author:MORI Hiroshi [Hiroshi, MORI]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781387630127
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2018-02-27T05:00:00+00:00

Episode 4: Turn

The gigantic bird will initiate the first flight from the summit ridge of the great Monte Ceceri. Then, it will saturate the universe with wonders, and fill the books with the fame. Long live the eternal glory of the place of his origin.

This excerpt is from a manuscript originally written in Italian by Leonardo da Vinci.

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Instead of Higasawa’s Sanka, Kurita’s Sanka was modified. After that, one more new type of Sanka came to the airbase. It was allotted to Kusurida. There was no extra pilot for replacement. No big project was being planned for a while.

The Teacher was often absent for duty-trips. I had not flown with him since then. Whenever we were on a scouting mission, my Sanka and Kurita’s flew together. If we needed another for an escort duty, Kusurida joined the pair. In either case, I played the leading role.

Sasakura devoted himself completely to modifying engines. When he was doing maintenance works, he seemed to be conducting experiments of some sort all the time. Still, experiments that could be done on the ground were limited. In the final phase of any experiment, trials with the use of actual aircrafts would have to be implemented. In that case, how did he want to conduct that part of his experiment? I did not want to be a guinea pig for him. So, I had to make sure not to get too close or be friendly to him, who was into explaining his experiments enthusiastically. I felt that one part of me who behaved defensively about this issue was like my twin sibling who had suddenly popped up. Anyway, the frequency of my visits to the hangar was decreasing more than before.

The elderly woman at the cafeteria gradually decreased the amount of dish for me. But, I could not always finish all of them. Still, my health condition was not bad.

When I was off-duty on a fine day, I passed by the hangar, turned at the edge of the runway, and walked toward the bank on the other side of the runway. It was the place where I talked with the Teacher, when I came to this airbase. I sat at the same place that he was lying down on. I watched birds flying in the sky, until I got tired of doing so.

Of course, the Teacher did not come to the place. Nobody came.

I spent about one hour there and went back. When I was on the return path, I was repeatedly simulating in my mind the new flight patterns. I thought I would try it in the next opportunity. I was not sure how such ideas would be materialized as results in the end. In actual combat situations, there would not be any time for me to recall such things while being too busy with dogfights. However, as I came to think later, new patterns ended up being adopted before I knew it, or the similar methods were applied to actual combats in many cases. Therefore, the proper incorporation was evident.

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