Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog Project Gutenberg 2025-05-19 Public domain in the USA. 161 Whitfield, Raoul 1897 1945 Field, Temple Whitfield, Raoul F. Molt, William Picture stuff $aChicago, IL :$bThe Consolidated Magazines Corporation, $c1928. Produced from the March, 1928 issue of Blue Book magazine. Roger Frank and Sue Clark "Picture stuff by Raoul Whitfield" is a pulp aviation adventure short story written in the late 1920s. It centers on barnstorming pilots hired for a newsreel, highlighting the perils of stunt flying, camera-ship coordination, and the pride and nerve that drive aerial daredevils. Veteran pilot Russ Healy, soured on camera-ship work after a past near-fatal crash, is pressed by circus boss Bob Brooks into a wing-to-wing transfer stunt featuring fearless performer Joan West, with her fiancé Steve Lott flying the camera plane. At altitude, Joan climbs from a DeHaviland onto Russ’s patched-up Jenny—the “Old Lady”—just as the camera ship collides, crippling the D.H. and tangling with the Jenny. The pilots of the wrecked planes bail out, but Joan’s parachute is fouled, forcing her to cling to a wing loop. When the two locked aircraft spin apart, Russ throttles and steadies the battered Jenny and dead-sticks her to the field with Joan still on the wing. The footage is lost and two planes are gone, but Joan’s scorn turns to admiration, and Russ reveals he never meant to scare her—only to defend the Old Lady—concluding that picture work takes real nerve. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/blue-book-v-046-n-05-1928-03 20250517231843whitfield 1928 US Reading ease score: 94.9 (5th grade). Very easy to read. en Short stories Air pilots -- Fiction Airplanes -- Fiction Stunt flying -- Fiction PS Text Category: Short Stories Category: Adventure Category: American Literature 54333 2025-07-30T06:45:17.116837 text/html 29469 2025-07-01T07:30:54 text/html 766920 2025-07-30T06:45:20.192822 application/epub+zip 765684 2025-07-30T06:45:18.146811 application/epub+zip 301868 2025-07-30T06:45:17.497843 application/epub+zip 1709842 2025-07-30T06:45:21.656761 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1703077 2025-07-30T06:45:19.683793 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 46989 2025-07-30T06:45:16.981826 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 26592 2025-07-01T07:30:54 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14807 2025-07-30T06:45:21.822778 application/rdf+xml 31565 2025-07-30T06:45:17.732804 image/jpeg 4780 2025-07-30T06:45:17.608788 image/jpeg 726025 2025-07-30T06:45:17.137886 application/octet-stream application/zip en.wikipedia