The Brighton Boys in Transatlantic Flight

The lads had no snowshoes to impede their progress this time, and the race to the hangar was a real contest, given zest by the anticipation of the ludicrous spectacle that was t...

Long before the final details of this great expedition had been decided upon, careful students of flying had foreseen that preliminary to the establishment of that method of tra...

The speaker was Jack Carew--Big Jack Carew, they had called him at Brighton. The descriptive prefix had clung to him throughout all the changes and vicissitudes of the Great War...

It was perhaps four hours later, or a little after midnight, when all four of the young men were suddenly and simultaneously aroused from their peaceful slumbers by the loud cla...

The four lads had not progressed more than a couple of hundred yards, however, when suddenly and without warning, apparently out of nowhere, there developed one of those sporadi...

As a preliminary to his plans for catching this dangerous meddler red-handed if he ever returned to meddle again, Fred first asked Big Jack to return to their hut and bring up t...

There they stopped to survey that surface of the sea which previously had been obscured. A motorboat was racing madly up the coast, toward where their hydro lay, and at sight of...

It was well past three o'clock in the morning, though he had no means then of knowing the time, when Andy Flures turned stiffly upon his hard couch of Mother Earth, rubbed his e...

Ask anyone who knows, and he will tell you that there is nothing to compare to the zest of the aerial flight. Those contemplating it for the first time view it with mixed feelin...

"Well, everything being as it is--in other words, things being as they will be," shouted out Fred Bentner after they had landed, experiencing a reaction of joy and relief at fin...

But if a clearing of the international political atmosphere was hoped for or expected in Halifax the following morning, the disappointment there was as sad and deep as it was in...

If Don Harlan was in all normal times, and under all natural conditions, a most excellent and trustworthy aerial navigator, as in fact all the other members of this crew knew fr...

"Meaning what?" asked Fred. Apparently they were going along at top speed and without cause for further concern. Nevertheless there was a worried look on Jack's face, and this w...

Even with the present practicability of the aeroplane, equipped with every known invention and device for expediting and safeguarding flights, a Transatlantic air voyage is some...

Could our friends have been in Washington early the following day and in the confidence of the inner circles of the Government, their spirits might have been far above what they...

Now, while this is not a difficult repair for an expert motor mechanic, nevertheless it necessitated another costly delay, and when they again got under way with full power it w...

But if the lads against whom their menace, their malice and their machinations were directed were not aware of the activities of these German spies and servants, the Secret Serv...

As Don crawled forward to take his place behind the shielded shoulder of the machine gun, Fred stripped himself of the wireless paraphernalia to become mechanician while Jack an...

Accustomed as they were to excitement and thrills, it was with an exuberance which they could not entirely submerge or control that Big Jack, Don and Andy Flures repeated their...

The darkness of night was again upon them, for although they had now been gone from Halifax a matter of some twenty-seven or eight hours, the reader will keep in mind that they...

"I have just received a telegram from Paris," he said, referring to a sheet of paper he held in his hand. "I guess your mission is as important as you stated. I am sorry you wer...

And thus it was that four lads from Brighton--the school which had contributed so much in manly courage to the winning of the world war--added new laurels to the name, not only...