Tom Swift and His Sky Racer

In 1910, the race is on to build the fastest flying machine in America. Young inventor Tom Swift has designed a revolutionary aircraft that could win him the $10,000 prize at Eagle Park's aviation meet, a fortune that would fund all his wildest inventions. But when his meticulously detailed plans vanish from his workshop, Tom faces an impossible deadline: redesign and rebuild his entire sky racer from memory, or watch his dreams take flight without him. This is early aviation fiction at its most breathless. Victor Appleton captures the giddy optimism of the flying age, when any boy with clever hands and courage might soar above the clouds. Tom is not just competing against other pilots, he is competing against time itself, against saboteurs who want him grounded, against the very real danger that these fragile flying machines might never come down at all. For readers who dream of adventure, who root for the underdog, who believe that ingenuity and determination can overcome any obstacle, Tom Swift's story still flies.