02442cam a22003733u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000380011324500290015126400510018030000470023133600260027833700260030433800360033049000700036650000310043650800540046752011600052153400760168165300180175765300400177565300280181565300270184383000700187085600660194085600430200699900190204978136UtSlPG20260610134818.0mcr n260607r20261938utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aVerral, Charles Spain,d1904-199014aThe boy who couldn't fly 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aProduced from the December 1939 issue of Air Adventures magazine.  aRelease date is 2026-03-08  aPrepared by volunteers at BookCove (bookcove.net)  aThe boy who couldn't fly by Charles Spain Verral is a juvenile aviation adventure short story written in the late 1930s. It follows a determined high-school boy with a leg brace whose passion for flying collides with bullying and parental fear, leading to a test of skill and courage in the air.

Dan Sutherland, secretly obsessed with aviation and mocked for “flying” a homemade cockpit in his barn, clashes with swaggering classmate Jerry Blackwell, who flaunts a new Ross Comet and humiliates Dan at school. When Jerry coaxes Dan into a flight and recklessly stunts to scare him, a botched loop puts the plane in a deadly spin; Jerry panics and bails out. Alone, Dan slides into the pilot’s seat, recalls the spin-recovery drills he practiced in his mock plane, and coolly brings the Comet out of the spin and lands it. The onlookers condemn Jerry’s cowardice, while Dan’s father—who had opposed flying since the crash that killed Dan’s mother and injured Dan—admits the truth of his fear, expresses pride in his son’s composure, and promises proper aviation training and a real airplane. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cChicago, IL: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1938  aShort stories  aPeople with disabilities -- Fiction  aTeenage boys -- Fiction  aAeronautics -- Fiction 0aProduced from the December 1939 issue of Air Adventures magazine.4 uhttps://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/PU/AA_1939_12.pdf40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78136  c118856d118856