Project Gutenberg 2016-02-05 Public domain in the USA. 52 Matthews, Stanley R. Motor Matt on the Wing; or, Flying for Fame and Fortune Produced by David Edwards, Demian Katz and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (Images courtesy of the Digital Library@Villanova University (http://digital.library.villanova.edu/)) "Motor Matt on the Wing; or, Flying for Fame and Fortune" by Stanley R. Matthews is a thrilling fictional adventure written in the early 20th century. The story follows the protagonist, Matt King—nicknamed Motor Matt—as he embarks on an exciting quest involving a flying machine that holds the promise of fame and fortune. The narrative revolves around the challenges and dangers he faces, including unscrupulous characters and the inherent risks of aviation at that time. The opening portion introduces readers to Matt as he visits the office of Amos Murgatroyd, who is in search of a skilled individual to operate a newly developed aëroplane. Despite the dangers associated with the aviation field and the recent death of its inventor, Matt expresses a keen interest in learning to pilot the machine for a government trial. After a tense exchange, he overhears Murgatroyd attempting to cheat the widow of the inventor, Mrs. Traquair, and resolves to aid her while also pursuing his own aspirations. The scene is set for an adventure filled with mechanical challenges, moral dilemmas, and the pursuit of justice, as Matt prepares to take to the skies. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Adventure stories Dime novels Airplanes -- Juvenile fiction Mechanics -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: Fiction 228890 228901 2024-09-21T11:04:07.339389 2023-09-22T08:12:27.282235 text/html text/html 228945 2016-02-04T17:10:00 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 495416 2016-02-04T17:10:12 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 485530 2024-09-21T11:04:11.941873 application/epub+zip 485749 2024-09-21T11:04:08.009382 application/epub+zip 153849 2024-09-21T11:04:07.656365 application/epub+zip 581581 2024-09-21T11:04:15.383834 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 551212 2024-09-21T11:04:11.492872 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 222192 2022-09-23T09:12:56.188031 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 207012 206794 2024-09-21T11:04:06.623407 2023-09-22T08:12:26.558197 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 206979 2016-02-04T17:10:00 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 79137 2016-02-04T17:10:12 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 18450 2024-09-21T11:04:15.527049 application/rdf+xml 32812 2024-09-21T11:04:07.731364 image/jpeg 4826 2024-09-21T11:04:07.693369 image/jpeg 500163 2024-09-21T11:04:07.373394 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