The Flying Boys in the Sky
1911
The Flying Boys in the Sky
1911
It's 1910, and the Wright brothers have barely made history. Seventeen-year-old Harvey Hamilton wants to join them in the sky. When he finds Ostrom Sperbeck, a German aviator with nerve to burn and secrets in his past, Harvey gets his chance. What follows is pure boy's-own adventure: cracked engines over empty fields, barnstorming runs that would make modern pilots wince, and the intoxicating freedom of altitude. Bohunkus Johnson, Harvey's comical sidekick, provides the laughs while the merchant backers keep the planes in the air. This is adventure fiction written when aviation was still a daredevil's game, when pilots wore leather jackets and goggles and didn't come back if the wind caught them wrong. The prose crackles with the electricity of an age that believed flight was the future and anything was possible. For readers who dream of a world where taking to the air still felt like a miracle.
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