The ''Ted Scott Flying Stories'' was a series of juvenile

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adventures created by the

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using the

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of Franklin W. Dixon (also used for ''

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'') and published almost exclusively by

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. The novels were produced between 1927 and 1943. The principal author was John W. Duffield, who also contributed to the

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and Bomba the Jungle Boy series. As "Richard H. Stone" he also launched a second Stratemeyer aviation series, the Slim Tyler Air stories (1930–1932). Duffield was a conscientious student of aeronautical technology, and long passages in the Ted Scott books can be traced to such sources as ''Aviation'', the ''New York Times,'' ''Aero Digest,'' and ''Science.'' The series featured Ted Scott, a public aviation hero rather than merely an amateur aviator. In the first book in the series, ''Over the Ocean to Paris'' published in 1927, Ted Scott achieved fame for being the first pilot to fly over the

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, a feat first accomplished in the real world by

Charles Lindbergh Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) was an American aviator, military officer, and author. On May 20–21, 1927, he made the first nonstop flight from New York (state), New York to Paris, a distance of . His aircra ...

in May of that year. For several years the Ted Scott adventures outsold

mystery series, which also began in 1927.Axe, John, ''All About Collecting Boys' Series Books'', page 53, Hobby House Press, Inc., 2002 One book from the Ted Scott series appears to be the first Stratemeyer Syndicate book to be reprinted in a foreign country and language, in the first half of the 1930s. Cover and interior art are different from the G & D editions.

List of titles

# ''Over the Ocean to Paris'' (1927) # ''First Stop Honolulu'' (1927) # ''Rescued in the Clouds'' (1927) # ''Over the Rockies with the Air Mail'' (1927) # ''The Search for the Lost Flyers'' (1928) # ''South of the Rio Grande'' (1928) #
Across the Pacific
' (1928) #
The Lone Eagle of the Border
' (1929) # ''Flying Against Time'' (1929) # ''Over The Jungle Trails'' (1929) #
Lost at the South Pole
' (1930) #
Through the Air to Alaska
' (1930) # ''Flying to the Rescue'' (1930) # ''Danger Trails of the Sky'' (1931) # ''Following the Sun Shadow'' (1932) # ''Battling the Wind'' (1933) # ''Brushing the Mountain Top'' (1934) # ''Castaways of the Stratosphere'' (1935) # ''Hunting the Sky Spies'' (1941) # ''The Pursuit Patrol'' (1943)

Re-vamp

# ''Hunting the Sky Spies'' (1941) (as volume 19) # ''The Pursuit Patrol'' (1943) (as volume 20)

References

External links

* {{Early Juvenile Series American adventure novels American children's novels Aviation novels Book series introduced in 1927 Juvenile series Stratemeyer Syndicate Works published under a pseudonym Children's books about aviation