The Boy Inventors' Electric Hydroaeroplane

1914. The age of flight is barely a decade old, and already one boy dreams of conquering both sky and sea. Ned Nevins arrives at the workshop of the famed Boy Inventors bearing his late uncle's schematics for an electric hydroaeroplane, a machine meant to rise from the waves and soar through the air. It's a wild idea, perhaps a impossible one. But Ned's determination is matched only by the skepticism of a local bully named Sam Hinkley, who mocks the boy and his uncle's impossible dream. Yet something in Ned's conviction catches the attention of Jack Chadwick and Tom Jesson. They see not just blueprints, but the spark of genius that refuses to die. What follows is a story of invention against odds, of mentors who recognize brilliance in a desperate young inventor, and of the thrill watching a revolutionary craft take shape. Richard Bonner captures the giddy optimism of the early aviation age, when the impossible seemed merely a matter of enough ambition and enough nerve. A period adventure that celebrates the dreams handed down between generations and the friendships forged in the pursuit of flight.