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Character -  pilot Jim Taylor, very serious and intelligent, wears an old fashioned uniform, moustache

Setting - high mountains in the air above during world war 2

Special Thing - special medicine he has to take to be able to fly high where there is less oxygen

Problem - he forgets to take his medicine and finds himself above the mountains feeling sick and faint

The Lucky Pilot

A long time ago on a continent far, far away, during the Great Intercontinental War there lived a brave and serious pilot called Jim Taylor. He was on the side of the Imperial Alliance and was a skillful and intelligent cargo pilot. Jim’s very important job was to deliver ammunition and other supplies over the Great Tundolon Mountain Ranges to the Alliance’s front line troops. The Tundolons were over 10,000 metres high and his Windsor Plane could only just make it having an altitude limit of 10500 metres. These mountains were too high for people to climb without oxygen so there was no chance of a land invasion to the Alliance’s airbase from the enemy The Evil Empire.

   Jim had so far flown 51 missions to supply the brave Alliance troops. He was proud of his job and a very good pilot. There was just one thing about him that nobody knew. One thing that made his missions extra-special dangerous. To fly at such a high altitude he needed to take special medicine to help his brain cope with the low oxygen levels and if he didn’t take it he would faint. Fortunately he always remembered and anyway there was a co-pilot to take over if he did forget and fainted up in the sky. And then one day something unusual happened, something so unusual and so unexpected that it would that would almost cause a great catastrophe for Jim and his flight crew.