A Viking of the Sky: A Story of a Boy Who Gained Success in Aeronautics

In mind, Hal Dane was already just below the stars, riding the clouds in a winged ship; before him, on imaginary instrument board, ticked the latest thing in indicator, controll...

Next thing Hal knew, he felt land grating against him. A strong hand had him by the collar dragging him out of the water, many voices beat into his ears.

In the days that followed, Hal Dane plugged steadily on with his share of the rescue program, until at last the crest of the flood had passed and the waters began to recede.

And the interminable circling kept on. It seemed hours that they rode thus, using up their precious gas in this ridiculous, passengerless flight. Finally Hal crawled out of the...

When Hal came face to face with his friend farther down the street of the City of Tents, he was shocked to see how broken and feeble Colonel Wiljohn had become. In six days he h...

The huge panther was the largest of its kind he had ever seen. In his scouting above the flood country, he had now and again glimpsed a few of these great tawny creatures of the...

As soon as he landed at the far-stretching, smooth acres of the Rand-Elwin Field, bounded by hangars, barracks, instruction halls, he had passed the inspection of Mr. Rand at th...

Quickly he unfolded the paper, and gave a gasp at the contents. It was a note scribbled to the head of the Rand-Elwin Flying School, saying: "Here's a real air-minded boy who ri...

The next instant a coil of rope shot down, fell across the wing below. In a flash the victim of the fire-trap had it in a noose under his arms and swung himself clear of the alr...

He had raced and choked and pounded his engine till smoke fumes discharged gassily from it. The next sputter might stall a filthy motor to a "conk" in mid-air, might back-fire f...

When Hal Dane came to himself, lanterns and electric torches on all sides bobbed crisscross lights above him. A dozen hands seemed pulling and tugging to extricate him from the...

At midnight Hal Dane made his decision. He snatched a few hours' sleep. Then in the early dawning he went out to inspect the Mazarin Field runway. Not so good--ground wet and he...

Down on the Rand-Elwin field a host of students and visitors watched that ship of the air. Its pilot was Hal Dane. For a space he cradled along, a mere speck gently floating up...

Interborough got wind of the near-robbery, the wild sky-ride, the subsequent crash of a great plane on the outskirts of Hillton. A horde of reporters swarmed over to interview t...

"Boy, you can say 'Excuse my clouds!' when you ride that thing, eh?" John Weldon, master mechanic at the Wiljohn Works, stepped back to gaze at the strange-looking, long-winged...

Deep in the night, and in a dense fog, Hal Dane hovered over a faint earthly glow that he felt must be Tokio, capital city of Japan. Hours ago he had straightened the wide defle...

"Hi, sleepy-head, don't you ever get up of a morning? Going to snooze all day?" A couple of resounding smacks against the hammock he swung in startled Hal into semi-wakefulness.

At his swift touch, the plane reared upward and away from the danger that was rolling and heaving directly beneath. Peering out of the window at his left, Hal saw in the waters...

To make the trip from Axion down into the flood-tortured southland without any further loss of time, Hal Dane set out to fly all night. He had already signed up with the Red Cro...

Hal Dane's blond head was in a whirl. In sixty brief minutes Maben had tried to cram into his cranium all the vast maze of desperately important facts that one needs must master...

Like one come back to the present from a far journey into eternity, Hal Dane sat for a space within the gyroscope's cockpit. He hardly heard the tumult that was men battering do...

Far above Hal Dane, Raynor's airplane shot into a fantastic rolling and twisting and turning, falling like a withered leaf, springing to life and hurling upward, stalling at wro...

The pilot was Hal Dane. He had been with the Wiljohn Works nearly a year now. In that time he had participated in some marvelous experiments, tried out in the hope of furthering...

Even the exertion of leaning forward, slight as it was, proved dangerous in the abnormal condition the high air produced in the human system. In that instant of stooping forward...

Caught in a swirl of air currents, Hal Dane and his craft were hurled this way and that like some toy shot from a giant's hand. Watchers below held their breath.