Victor Appleton 3 hr 1 min read

Tom Swift builds an airline express to fly from ocean to ocean by daylight, battling masked men, sabotage, and a mountain storm to complete his record-breaking coast-to-coast flight.

Victor Appleton's 1926 novel is a rousing entry in the beloved Tom Swift juvenile series. Fast, wholesome, inventive. Read it for a classic boys' invention-adventure, a transcontinental air service, daring flights, and thwarted villains, in the brisk, optimistic style that made Tom Swift a fixture of early-twentieth-century American juvenile fiction and a byword for young ingenuity.

In its time

Published in 1926, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

3 hr 1 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).