The Dive Bomber
A High-flying Adventure of Love and Danger
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Lucky Martin is a daredevil of the skies-a test pilot who lives to break the rules and push the envelope. He's a trailblazer-flying higher and faster than any pilot out there. His latest invention could change the face of air warfare and alter the balance of world power. It's The Dive Bomber-a perfectly designed aircraft for the US Navy. There's only one problem-up to now every test flight has ended in disaster. The reason: sabotage. America's enemies will go to any length to get their hands on his design-from savage attacks to kidnapping his fiancee. Lucky'll have to push his luck to the very limit to save his plane, save his girl ... and save his country. Fasten your seat-belt and hold on to your crash helmet as The Dive Bomber takes you on the high-flying ride of your life.
"Hubbard grounds his cliffhanger adventure firmly in aeronautical details that make it thrilling." - Publishers Weekly
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
First published in the pulp magazine Five-Novels Monthly in 1937, this intriguing tale of aerial derring-do offers up a big patriotic chest thump for American aviators on the eve of WWII. Lucky Martin, the "Number One test pilot in the United States," is trying to sell the military a fleet of customized dive bombers, but his test planes keep crashing suspiciously. When smarmy businessman Joe Bullard offers to pay Lucky to convert his fleet to "sporting planes," Lucky recognizes a dodge to circumvent the U.S. government's neutrality laws and sell the planes abroad, where they could be used as weapons against American ships. Facing blackmail by Bullard who has also kidnapped Lucky's gal Dixie Lucky has to find some way to prove the mettle of his innovative planes, in order to keep them in America. Hubbard (Mouthpiece) grounds his cliffhanger adventure firmly in aeronautical details that make its thrilling events seem plausible.
