Haunted Airways

Into the air in a rocket plane! What is the mysteirous power that menaces the transcontinental airships of Independent Airways? Why do their otors stop simultaneously and caused a forced landing--always over the Mojave Desert? Jeff Donaldson, youthful manager of Independent Airways--and winner of the round-the-world, no-stop race in a thirty hour flight, and his friend, Reginald Holmesdale, famous free-lance detective, are determined to find out. They carry on their search in the world of 1985. It is a world of thousand-passenger airplanes; rocket planes hurtling through the air a thousand miles an hour; giant airships that can be converted into sea-going yachts in two minutes; great union airdromes built high above New York City to avoid air traffic, and other amazing inventions. The story of these daring young flyers of the future is as full of thrills as a Jules Verne adventure. More than that it is an imaginative scientific picture of the world of 1985. Thomson Burtis has studied carefully every development of aviation today and visioned the possible developments of the future. Professor Alexander Klemin, director of the Guggenheim School of Aeronauties, calls the world of <I>Haunted Airways</I> "a perfectly logical outcome of the inventions that are sure to come--and a marvelous book of adventure."