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050 4 _aPS
100 1 _aWhitfield, Raoul,
_d1897-1945
245 1 4 _aThe Old Lady flies
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aProduced from the August 1, 1927 issue of Top-Notch magazine.
500 _aRelease date is 2026-02-25
508 _aPrepared by volunteers at BookCove (bookcove.net)
520 _aThe Old Lady flies by Raoul Whitfield is a pulp aviation short story written in the early 20th century. It follows a loyal stunt pilot and his aging “Jenny” biplane as tensions in a flying circus lead to a risky movie-job gambit, testing pride, friendship, and the value of an old aircraft. When the Brooks’ Flying Circus downsizes, boss Bob Brooks tries to drop pilot Russ Healy’s battered Jenny. Russ quits on the spot, vowing to prove the “Old Lady” still has life by doing hazardous film work for a war picture director named Conant. Brooks and the crew race to stop him, but Russ and Conant outmaneuver them: the circus ships are drawn into an impromptu aerial battle shoot, and Russ, with Brooks trapped in the rear cockpit, puts the Jenny through sharp stunts before executing a controlled crash into a sand-filled shell hole for the cameras. No one is badly hurt, Conant pays generously for the footage, and Brooks concedes the point. The Jenny will be repaired and kept in the act—the old lady flies. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: Street & Smith Corporation, 1927
653 _aShort stories
653 _aMotion picture industry -- Fiction
653 _aAir pilots -- Fiction
653 _aStunt flying -- Fiction
830 0 _aProduced from the August 1, 1927 issue of Top-Notch magazine.
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/top-notch-magazine-v-71-n-01-1927-08-01
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78035
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