Jimmy Beebe and the Great Silver Air Fleet: A Novel of Adventure and Suspense Hardcover - 1978

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The Great Silver Air Fleet is a novel about aviation in the 1930's and 1940's. It is also a fantasy, based on the radio serials of that era: Captain Midnight, The Air Adventures of Jimmy Allen, and Jack Armstrong, The All-American Boy. The hero, Jimmy Beebe, most closely parallels Jack Armstrong - daring, impetuous - wherever danger strikes. He and Commander Frank Conroy - steady, stable - the father figure (Uncle Jim, in the old radio show), this high school chums Betty and Bob Finnegan, plus ace mechanic Jocko Grimes, are pitted against Count Ivan Cougar, Dr. Julius Cheropodis and Sodium Man.Interwoven with this narrative is the story of how The Silver Air Fleet was founded, backgrounds of the leading characters and The Credo of TGSAF. Young Jimmy Beebe and his compatriots fight to preserve the cherished ideals of The Great Silver Air Fleet against the ruthless challenge of cynical, dictatorial forces bent on their destruction. Dedication to their cause, devotion to their country, and faith in themselves ultimately results in a successful mission. Long live the American Dream and the heroes hiding like crackerjack prizes within us! There will always be the pulsating, pounding thunder of the engines of the high-flying Great Silver Air Fleet. Brilliant sunshine sparkles on the shining aluminum skin of the huge metal ships streaking wing tip to wing tip in perfect formation, from horizon to horizon, through endless blue skies over America.