First Flight ch03 Two Stories about Flying

CBSE Class 10 English Language and Literature
Revision Notes
Chapter 03
Two Stories about Flying

I. His First Flight

Seagull family of 6 members.
The young seagull afraid of flying.
Family has concern of his food and fear of flying.
Cajoling and provoking of him by family.
Family leaves him alone at the rock.
He cries because of heat and hunger.
No one looks at him except the mother.
Temptation by mother for a piece of fish.
He pretends to sleep but nobody comes to him.
Everybody taunts him for his cowardice.
The young seagull dives to catch a fish to feed himself.
He tries to spread his wings outwards.
He begins to fly slowly downwards and upwards.
He is now no longer afraid of flying and falling down in the sea. He soars with a joyous scream.
Seagull family comes near to him an encourages him.
He has made his first flight successful.

II. Black Aeroplane

Once the writer was in his old Dakota and it was one thirty in the morning, he was flying over France and going to England.
After informing the Paris Control that he was on his way to England, he turned his plane 12 degree west towards England.
He was dreaming of taking breakfast with his family. Suddenly he saw stormy black clouds before him.
Paris was about 150 km away and he had not enough fuel. So he decided to fly through the storm.
In the middle of the storm, he could not see anything and all his instruments like compass, radio, etc. stopped working.
Suddenly he saw another aeroplane without lights. Its pilot asked him to follow.
After half an hour, he came out of the clouds and found a runway. Now he was safe and happy.
He wanted to thank the pilot who helped him, but no one was there.
He went to the control room and asked the woman who was on duty about the pilot.
The woman looked at the writer surprisingly, laughed and told that there was no other plane in the radar. The writer was extremely surprised.