about three o'clock in the afternoon
`` You 're a real sport ! '' In the evolutions of the airship each one aboard was given a chance to pilot her . He was also allowed to stop and start the machinery , since it could not be told at what moment , in an emergency , someone would have to jump into the breech . It was about three o'clock in the afternoon , when Dick 's ship was nearing the Western borders of Pennsylvania , that Paul , who was looking down through the celluloid floor in the cabin , cried out : `` Something going on down below us , boys ! '' All save Innis , who was steering , crowded around the odd window . `` Why , there 's an airship meet going on down there , '' said Dick . `` Look , there are a lot of monoplanes and some biplanes . ''