02729cam a22004093u 4500 77538 UtSlPG 20260610134809.0 m cr n 260607r20251912utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d 12022134 UtSlPG en iso639-1 PZ Stratemeyer, Edward, 1862-1930 The aircraft boys of Lakeport Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Lakeport series Release date is 2025-12-23 Aaron Adrignola, Terry Jeffress, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) "The aircraft boys of Lakeport" by Edward Stratemeyer is a juvenile adventure novel written in the early 20th century. It follows Lakeport boys Joe and Harry Westmore, Fred Rush, Link Darrow, and Bart Mason as they plunge into early aviation—rescuing an injured airman, inheriting his biplane, and facing jealous rivals while learning to fly. The opening of the novel finds the boys on an auto outing when a biplane, piloted by elderly Andrew A. Akers, sputters overhead, drops a locked black tin box, and then crashes into treetops near Owl Lake. The boys retrieve the box, discover Akers injured, spirit him to hunter Joel Runnell’s home after he refuses doctors and pointedly avoids Thomas Mason’s lodge, and receive a signed paper granting them the stranded biplane. Their rivals Si Voup and Ike Boardman briefly snatch the machine, but Joe’s firm stand forces its return; the boys test the motor, haul the parts to town, and face local chatter about whether they’ll dare to fly. Spurred by the talk and with cautious parental consent, they arrange lessons over the lake with Mr. Corsen’s chauffeur, James Slosson, who begins ground instruction and attempts the first trial. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1912 Mystery and detective stories Airplanes -- Piloting -- Juvenile fiction Aeronautics -- Juvenile fiction Airplanes -- Juvenile fiction Airplane racing -- Juvenile fiction Boehm, H. Richard, 1871-1914 Lakeport series https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433089073336&view=1up&seq=9 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77538 118258 118258