Dick grasped the steering wheel and put his feet on the pedals.
"All ready ?" asked Captain Colby.
"Yes.

Let go." "Now be careful.

Take it easy,--and keep over the cornfield," said the captain.

"And if you turn, make a wide circle." He thought a tumble among the corn might not be as bad as one in an open field where the ground was hard.
Those on the ground let go, and with a rush and a whirr the _Dartaway_ sped forward over the ground.

Then Dick shifted the elevation rudder, and up into the air rushed the biplane, gathering speed at every revolution of the propellers.
The eldest Rover boy was in the air at last!.