They don’t call him Caution Jones for nothing. An ace
pilot, ever since his barnstorming father was killed in an air stunt, Jones has
stuck strictly to business—as the no-nonsense general manager of
Trans-Continental Airlines. But, like Robert Redford in The Great Waldo Pepper,
he’s about to find that, sometimes, if you want to get anywhere, you have to
throw caution to the wind.
The race is on for a monster contract: the U.S. Postal
Service. But to get it, Trans-Continental will have to circle the globe and
beat its top competitor to the prize. And there’s only one pilot with the skill
to do it: Caution Jones. He’ll have to dust off his wings and soar to heights
even his father never dreamed of.
The wild blue yonder has never been
wilder as Jones discovers that the competition will go to any length to bring
his plane down. But an even greater challenge sits in his own cockpit—his
co-pilot. She’s blonde, she’s brazen, and she just might get Caution Jones to
take the biggest risk of all. . .
The Sky-Crasher (Aviation Adventure)
By L. Ron Hubbard
ISBN #978-1592123308
Price $9.95
136 Pages
“Great Adventure In The Clouds.”
Caution Jones is just that, cautious.
His dad was killed doing stunts in airplanes, and Caution Jones wants nothing
to do with them. Besides, stunts do nothing for aviation. Even though the girl
he’s crazy about, Pam Craig, loves stunt flying. Then comes a government offer
for the best airlines to take over a job delivering mail around the world.
Being the manager of Trans-Continental Airlines, he knows their company could
use the million-dollar contact. He also knows that United States Airlines will
sabotage their efforts, and won’t take the chance. But the owner gets in a
heated argument with Mercer, the boss of United States Airlines, and accepts
the deal. Now it’s up to Caution and Pam to make good.
This story was originally published
in the January 1936 issue of FIVE-NOVELS Monthly. A second story, Boomerang
Bomber is also included in the book, and features Clint Regen, an ex American
Army pilot trying to get a bomber to China. The ship is stopped in Japan, and
the crates containing the aircraft is unloaded, and confiscated by Japan, and
Clint thrown in jail for smuggling arms to Japan’s enemy. A professor named
Alan Simpson tells the Japanese that the only way they will ever assemble the
plane is to bring their prisoner to the airfield, and let him assemble it for
them. Of course, Simpson is more than he appears, and the two escape in the
assembled airplane. Both stories are a lot of fun, and an easy read. Highly
recommended to aviation fans, and lovers of good story telling.
Tom Johnson
Author of CARNIVAL OF DEATH
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