Project Gutenberg 2015-10-09 Public domain in the USA. 90 Walton, Frank Davis, J. Watson 1870 1959 Davis, John Watson The Flying Machine Boys on Duty; Or, The Clue Above the Clouds E-text prepared by Stephen Hutcheson, Rick Morris, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team "The Flying Machine Boys on Duty; Or, The Clue Above the Clouds" by Frank Walton is a fictional adventure novel written in the early 20th century. It follows a group of young aviators, specifically James Stuart, Ben Whitcomb, and Carl Nichols, as they embark on a mission to track down two notorious criminals after a bank heist and murder. With excitement in the air, the boys utilize their flying machines to traverse the dangers they face against both human adversaries and the challenges of flight. At the start of the story, we meet a young aviator flying over New York Bay who encounters a bothersome pursuer in another aircraft. After a defensive duel of skill in the skies, he returns to a hangar where he meets up with his friends. They are soon drawn into a conversation about a commission from the police to find the criminals behind a bank robbery and murder, believed to have fled to a mountainous region on the Pacific coast. As they prepare for their journey, hints are dropped of underlying threats from the criminals' associates, foreshadowing tension and adventure in their quest. The beginning sets up a gripping narrative filled with aerial pursuit, danger, and the camaraderie of youth united against crime. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Mystery and detective stories Aeronautics -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: Crime/Mystery Browsing: Fiction 377126 376991 2024-09-21T04:21:34.442117 2023-09-21T14:11:00.512821 text/html text/html 377101 2015-10-11T15:03:21 text/html 352362 2015-10-11T15:07:32 text/html application/zip 400290 2024-09-21T04:21:41.019048 application/epub+zip 397313 2024-09-21T04:21:35.591114 application/epub+zip 208531 2024-09-21T04:21:35.055132 application/epub+zip 490274 2024-09-21T04:21:45.008539 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 459132 2024-09-21T04:21:40.422051 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 270627 2022-09-22T16:43:36.829828 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 317247 317162 2024-09-21T04:21:33.343130 2023-09-21T14:10:59.339833 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 317180 2020-06-14T18:11:13 text/plain; charset=utf-8 111447 2020-06-14T18:11:13 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 18536 2024-09-21T04:21:45.145532 application/rdf+xml 30675 2024-09-21T04:21:35.146089 image/jpeg 4153 2024-09-21T04:21:35.101081 image/jpeg 354135 2024-09-21T04:21:34.482107 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog