title: Sunset to Sunrise: Night Flight Techniques
author:  David Robson 
description: <DIV><b>David Robson</b> is the author of <i>Conventional Gear</i>, <i>Skydancing</i>, and <i>Transition to Twins</i>. He is a former fighter and test pilot for the Royal Australian Air Force and was a member of their elite Delta aerobatic team.<br></div>
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  Northern Lights, v3
  
  
  WHEN THE SWALLOWS HOMEWARD FLY
  
  GEORGE'S WIFE
  
  MARCILE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # Northern Lights, v3
  
  
  ### Gilbert Parker
  
  
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  * WHEN THE SWALLOWS HOMEWARD FLY
  
  
  * GEORGE'S WIFE
  
  
  * MARCILE
  
  
  
  
  
  
      This etext was produced by David Widger  widger@cecomet.net
  
  
  ### WHEN THE SWALLOWS HOMEWARD FLY
  
  
  The arrogant sun had stalked away into the evening, trailing behind
  
  
  him banners of gold and crimson, and a swift twilight was streaming
  
  
  over the land. As the sun passed, the eyes of two men on a high hill
  
  
  followed it, and the look of one was like a light in a window to a
  
  
  lost traveller. It had in it the sense of home and the tale of a
  
  
  journey done. Such a journey this man had made as few have ever
  
  
  attempted, and fewer accomplished. To the farthermost regions of snow
  
  
  and ice, where the shoulder of a continent juts out into the
  
  
  nort