The Boy Aviators in Record Flight; Or, The Rival Aeroplane
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Goldfrap John Henry. The Boy Aviators in Record Flight; Or, The Rival Aeroplane
CHAPTER I. THE BIG PRIZE
CHAPTER II. BILLY AS A DIPLOMAT
CHAPTER III. UNDER A CLOUD
CHAPTER IV. THIEVES IN THE NIGHT
CHAPTER V. THE BOYS DECIDE
CHAPTER VI. OFF FOR SAN FRANCISCO
CHAPTER VII. ABOVE THE EARTH
CHAPTER VIII. BOY AVIATORS TO THE RESCUE
CHAPTER IX. LUTHER BARR FORMS AN ALLIANCE
CHAPTER X. A NIGHT VOYAGE
CHAPTER XI. THE FIRST LEG
CHAPTER XII. ATTACKED BY COWBOYS
CHAPTER XIII. INDIANS!
CHAPTER XIV. THE AUTO IN DIFFICULTIES
CHAPTER XV. THIRST – AND A PLOT
CHAPTER XVI. THE AUTO GONE
CHAPTER XVII. THE WRONG MAN
CHAPTER XVIII. WIRELESS
CHAPTER XIX. ARRESTED BY AEROPLANE
CHAPTER XX. CAUGHT IN A STAMPEDE
CHAPTER XXI. BART AND THE B’AR
CHAPTER XXII. AN AUTO LEAP FOR LIFE
CHAPTER XXIII. A MYSTERY
CHAPTER XXIV. THE GOLDEN HERMIT
CHAPTER XXV. A FIGHT FOR FORTUNE
CHAPTER XXVI. THE SAND STORM
CHAPTER XXVII. WINNING THE PRIZE. —Conclusion
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A few minutes after Fred Reade had left the Planet offices he was followed by Billy Barnes. The young reporter boarded an open Madison Avenue car, preferring it to the stuffy heat of the subway, and in due time found himself at the home of Mr. Chester, the wealthy banker, and father of Frank and Harry Chester, the Boy Aviators. The lads need no further introduction to our readers, who have doubtless formed the acquaintance of both the young air pilots in previous volumes of this series. To those who have not it may be as well – while Billy Barnes is ringing the doorbell – to say that Frank and Harry Chester were graduates of the Agassiz High School and the pioneers among schoolboy aviators. Beginning with models of air craft they had finally evolved a fine biplane which they named the Golden Eagle. The first Golden Eagle was destroyed in a tropical storm off the coast of Nicaragua, as related in The Boy Aviators in Nicaragua; or, In League with the Insurgents. To carry out an important commission affecting a stolen formula the lads then constructed a second Golden Eagle, in which they met many adventures and perils in the Everglades of Florida. These were set forth in The Boy Aviators on Secret Service; or, Working with Wireless, the second volume of the series. In the third and fourth volumes the boys had aerial adventures in Africa, and in the Sargasso Sea. What these were will be found in The Boy Aviators in Africa; or, An Aerial Ivory Trail; and The Boy Aviators’ Treasure Quest; or, The Golden Galleon.
Before the servant who answered Billy’s ring had time to announce him there was a rush of feet down the hallway and two tall lads, with crisp wavy hair and blue eyes, were wringing Billy’s hand till he laughingly shouted:
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“I’d like to go,” decided Harry promptly; “but, as you said, Frank, it would delay us both in our studies, and then we would have a lot of work to do on the framework of the Golden Eagle, wrecked as she was.”
“Hold on there!” cried Billy. “I was coming to that. I was going to say that maybe the reason you refused was that you couldn’t build a new ’plane in time, but did I understand you to say you had recovered the frame?”
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