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

aviation Aviation includes the activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry. ''Aircraft'' includes fixed-wing and rotary-wing types, morphable wings, wing-less lifting bodies, as well as lighter-than-air craft such as hot air ...

adventures created by the

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using the

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Franklin W. Dixon Franklin W. Dixon is the pen name used by a variety of different authors who were part of a team that wrote The Hardy Boys novels for the Stratemeyer Syndicate (now owned by Simon & Schuster). Dixon was also the writer attributed for the ''Ted ...

(also used for ''

The Hardy Boys The Hardy Boys, brothers Frank and Joe Hardy, are fictional characters who appear in several mystery series for children and teens. The series revolves around teenagers who are amateur sleuths, solving cases that stumped their adult counterpa ...

'') 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

Don Sturdy Don Sturdy is a fictional character in the ''Don Sturdy'' series of 15 American children's adventure novels published between 1925 and 1935 by Grosset & Dunlap. The books were written by Victor Appleton, a house name used by the Stratemeyer Syn ...

and

Bomba the Jungle Boy ''Bomba the Jungle Boy'' is a series of American boys' adventure books produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate under the pseudonym Roy Rockwood. and published by Cupples and Leon in the first half of the 20th century, in imitation of the successful ...

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.''Fred Erisman, ''Boys' Books, Boys' Dreams, and the Mystique of Flight'' (TCU Press, 2006), 143-146 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, author, inventor, and activist. On May 20–21, 1927, Lindbergh made the first nonstop flight from New York City to Paris, a distance o ...

in May of that year. 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 Book series introduced in 1927 Stratemeyer Syndicate Juvenile series American children's novels American adventure novels Aviation novels Works published under a pseudonym