The Sky Trackers
Series: Warne's Adventure Library
Publisher: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd.
Published: 1931
Place of publication: London & New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 156
Description: A sort of 2nd rate 'Biggles' book intended for younger readers. The illustrations by S. Drigin show state-of-the-art aircraft in 1931, based on machines like the Hawker Fury fighter and the Supermarine S.5/S.6 series of Schneider Trophy winners which later morphed into the Spitfire of WW2. The author had been a fighter pilot in World War I flying a Bristol F.2b. and was credited with 28 victories with No.22 Squadron.
Table of contents: title: Chapter I      The Baghdad Bank Robbery; title: Chapter II     The Devil that flies by night; title: Chapter III    The Stolen Inventor; title: Chapter IV    The Flying Fish; title: Chapter V     The Triumph of Albert; title: Chapter VI    The Prisoners of the Bat; title: Chapter VII   Thunder over the Alps; title: Chapter VIII  The Bat's Last Flight