CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY, Publishers New York
THE GREAT ACE SERIES
By NOËL SAINSBURY, JR.
Author of The Champion Sport Stories
12mo. Cloth. Illustrated. Jacket in colors. Price 50 cents per volume. Postage 10 cents additional.
Here is a series of rattling good flying stories told by an expert. A boy-aviator’s adventures in the wilds of New Guinea, Arabia, South America and other strange lands. Billy Smith, son of an eminent explorer, learns to pilot a seaplane aboard a Naval Air Station, and immediately fares forth upon a series of the most exciting cruises and mysterious quests by air, by land and by sea that have ever fallen to the lot of man. The author, a traveller and ex-naval aviator, brings many of his own adventures into these tales. Every boy with a drop of red blood in his veins will want to join Billy Smith in his thrilling quests.
1. BILLY SMITH—EXPLORING ACE
or By Airplane to New Guinea
The story of a fourteen-year-old lad, taught to pilot a seaplane by his uncle, Lieut.-Commander on a Naval Air Station. Together they are forced down at sea, and Lieut.-Com. Smith is so impressed with the lad’s courage in this trying situation that he takes Billy with him to New Guinea to help search for Billy’s father.
2. BILLY SMITH—SECRET SERVICE ACE
or Airplane Adventures in Arabia