Ted Scott Flying Stories


The Ted Scott Flying Stories was a series of juvenile aviation adventures created by the Stratemeyer Syndicate using the pseudonym of Franklin W. Dixon and published almost exclusively by Grosset & Dunlap. The novels were produced between 1927 and 1943. The principal author was John W. Duffield, who also contributed to the Don Sturdy and Bomba the Jungle Boy series. As "Richard H. Stone" he also launched a second Stratemeyer aviation series, the Slim Tyler Air stories. Duffield was a conscientious student of aeronautical technology, and long passages in the Ted Scott books can be traced to such sources as Aviation, the New York Times, Aero Digest, and Science.
The series featured Ted Scott, a public aviation hero rather than merely an amateur aviator. In the first book in the series, Over the Ocean to Paris published in 1927, Ted Scott achieved fame for being the first pilot to fly over the Atlantic Ocean to Paris, a feat first accomplished in the real world by Charles Lindbergh in May of that year.
One book from the Ted Scott series appears to be the first Stratemeyer Syndicate book to be reprinted in a foreign country and language, in the first half of the 1930s. Cover and interior art are different from the G & D editions.

List of titles

  1. Over the Ocean to Paris
  2. First Stop Honolulu
  3. Rescued in the Clouds
  4. Over the Rockies with the Air Mail
  5. The Search for the Lost Flyers
  6. South of the Rio Grande
  7. Across the Pacific
  8. The Lone Eagle of the Border
  9. Flying Against Time
  10. Over The Jungle Trails
  11. Lost at the South Pole
  12. Through the Air to Alaska
  13. Flying to the Rescue
  14. Danger Trails of the Sky
  15. Following the Sun Shadow
  16. Battling the Wind
  17. Brushing the Mountain Top
  18. Castaways of the Stratosphere
  19. Hunting the Sky Spies
  20. The Pursuit Patrol

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  21. Hunting the Sky Spies
  22. The Pursuit Patrol