The Boy Inventors' Flying Ship

er,' as Captain Andrews would say. The W

, then he wrung his cousin's hand with

going over every nut and bolt, and capered about the lofty, bare-rafter

ly. "I can feel it in my bones,-like Jupe when his rheumatics are coming

d Jack, less impetuously; "it may pro

risk it. When shall we

by this evening everything will be ready. Besides, night is the best time. We don't wa

s Boston sheet, will you? A c

py of a Boston paper and indi

he declaimed vociferously, wavin

think that our little spin the other night

ked up at the spectacle of colored lights like those on a ship, skimming around above their heads at sixty miles an hour? Hu

such a bad name for the new Flying

comet that would s

the new Road Racer will perfor

we are in for a

up the pontoons with that aluminum paint. If the trial

touches. Only the important experiment remained. Would the re-modelled Flying Road Racer do what the boys expected of her? If the answer to that question was in the affirmative, they knew that the

of former volumes of this series will recall the Flying Road Racer, the air and land ship that had carried the boys and their friends faithfully so many miles, and in which they had encoun

storville, where the boys lived. But, remote as the spot was, it still was not far enough removed from human haun

o, it is certain that the two lads would have been besieged by curiosity seekers, for the craft on which they were working was the most ambitious thing that they had undertaken. The Wondership was nothing more nor less than an invention capable of travel

eroplanes, and many other inventors were laboring along these lines. It was in the application of the idea that the boys had radically departed from anything hither

seated six persons, and at a pinch could accommodate more. The lower part of the cylinder was a big tank in which gas was generated from a concentrated powder which, upon being mi

ich lifted the Flying Road Racer from the earth when it was desired to fly. Pumps filled the bag with gas, or withdrew it, as was de

formed a full cylinder of light but strong metal. Roughly, the Flying Road Racer now resembled a

ould act as hydroplanes, buoying up the craft. But for buoyancy they did not depend on these hydroplanes, or pontoons, alon

d of the hydroplanes, would float, just like a boat. The hydroplanes at the side would, of course, correct a tendency to roll over, which an unsupported cylindrical body would naturally have.

em. But they believed that they had found a solution. The open space on the top of the cylinder was provided with metal doors which could be closed and screwed down, formi

marine Peacemaker, which, as told in "The Boy Inventors and the Diving Torpedo Boat," they had helped to construct. Jack's solution, then, was this: A collapsible twin tube was made which when extended fully would reach upward, above the air-tight cylinder, to a height of twenty-five

haft was connected to the motor through a water-tight stuffing box, as on a motor boat. The rudder lines, too, led through water-tight connections to the steering wheel. The aerial rudder, being of light metal like the propeller, was capable of use both in the air and water. In place of the o

ibed how the boys aided him in many stirring adventures in Yucatan and in the discovery of Tom Jesson's long missing father, an explorer and naturalist. Since that time Mr. Jesson had made his home with his brother-in-law who, like himself, was a widower. The next volume

ed their mechanical ability and learned self-reliance and manliness in many a hard test of both those sterling qualities. Had this not been so, it is doubtful if they would ever have had the grit to bring to a triumphant conclusion the construction of the Wondership, beset as their way was oftentimes by apparently insurmountable diff

his son solve his own problems. He knew that if occasion arose his advice would be called for. But the boys meant to fight out their battle alone. Even the test to

, testing and finishing. They gave themselves little time for lunch, eating with one hand and working with the other. So engrossed were they on

made his way up to the structure and, boring a hole in the planking, watched with burning interest all that was going on within. He was an odd-looking figure, dressed in a loud checked suit and sporting a gaudy necktie and a hat cocked to one side. But his youthful face bor

u've struck it! Instead of being fired for incompetency, you'll be the biggest reporter in Boston to-m

rd dusk before he observed the change in the weather that had come with startling suddenness. The sea, calm before, was

watcher mad

" he muttered, "but by the crooked cantelope o

f shore, dangerously close for that coast, there lay a white, yacht-like

story!" gasped the watcher. "I'll be made a managing ed