Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: 2nd Lt. Tom Cooper gets nickname Soapy from friend, Fact2: Tom 's trademark gift to female friend is inscribed bar of soap, Fact3: Dick finds tell-tale bar of soap from Tom, Fact4: tense relationship has caused friction between former friends, Fact5: thunderstorm takes them thousands of miles off course
Output (English): In the mid1930s, in the early days of military aviation, an era of open cockpits and biplanes, two U.S. Army pilots, in a friendly rivalry, are always trying to get the best of each other. 2nd Lt. Tom Cooper William Cagney gets the nickname Soapy, from his friend, 1st Lt. Richard Dick Wood, Woody Edward J. Nugent. Toms trademark gift to a female friend is an inscribed bar of soap. Tom finds out that Ida Johnson, the girl hes been seeing while Dick has been off the base, is really Dicks fiancee, Evelyn Worthington June Collyer. She introduced herself as Ida Hattie McDaniel, using her maids name as a lark. When Dick finds the telltale bar of soap from Tom, its no joke to him, and two friends are at odds. Dick breaks off the engagement while Evelyn is torn between two loves. The two pilots are picked to go on a dangerous balloon mission launched into the stratosphere, to evaluate high altitude flight capability. Before they get off the ground, the tense relationship has caused friction between the former friends. The generals keep reminding them that the equipment on board is more important than they are. When a thunderstorm takes them thousands of miles off course, the two flyers are lost in the stratosphere. It does not look like either of them will survive until Evelyn begs them to bail out. Dick, finally realizing Toms innocence, knocks him out and throws him off the balloon, so he can come down safely by parachute, thereby jeopardizing his own chances of survival. After a crash landing in Quebec, from his hospital bed, Dick gives his blessing to Tom and Evelyn.