Garage sale scavenging - Hardy Boys books

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 16:39:07 -0600, "Montblack"
wrote:

Posted this link in a different thread. Then I started looking through the
books...

(Volume 9) The Great Airport Mystery
(Volume 37) The Ghost at Skeleton Rock

http://hardyboys.bobfinnan.com/hbart.htm
(Hardy Boys book covers)

Anyone have one of these on their aviation bookshelf?

I could do the easy hunt at eBay, but garage sale scavenging is much more
fun :-)


Montblack

The first "Nancy Drew" author was a GA pilot.

http://ils.unc.edu/nancy.drew/benson.html

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs...=2002105290069

Don't know if any of her characters were pilots, however.

I was working at a local airport years ago when a wet-behind-the-ears
flight instructor gave her bad marks on a biennial.

TC

wrote:
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 16:39:07 -0600, "Montblack"


I could do the easy hunt at eBay, but garage sale scavenging is much more
fun :-)


Montblack


The first "Nancy Drew" author was a GA pilot.


Jackpot!
Was wandering in a great dusty old bookstore today near the U of
Minnesota and I found, not one of the Hardy Boys, but a book titled
"The Boy Aviators in Record Flight, or the Rival Aeroplane," copyright
1910 by one "Captain Wilbur Lawton."

A front page lists half a dozen titles including "The Boy Aviators in
Secret Service, or Working with Wireless." I paid about 7 bucks for
this, in fine condition -- the joys of book-hunting.

Best of all, a link suggests you can read a couple from this series
online (O yea, I have that many hours MORE to spend on my butt in front
of a computer), or download them via something called Project Gutenberg.
Probably so old the copyright's expired, I'd guess...

http://manybooks.net/titles/lawtoncaetext04tbvfr10.html