AIRPLANE GIRL SERIES
By Harrison Bardwell (Edith Janice Craine)

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Titles
Sixteen-year-old Roberta Langwell, newly graduated from a high school business course, finds work as a secretary at the Lurtiss Airplane Company. When the company decides to have one of its pilots teach an aviation class, Roberta is detailed to sit in on the class and take notes, in the hope that an aviation textbook might be worked up from the pilot's lectures. Becoming more interested in the subject by the day, Roberta is delighted when one of the new pilots offers to take her for her first airplane ride. Eventually, Roberta gets her own pilot's license and becomes Lurtiss' first female stenographer-aviatrix (she and her mother "did a tango around the kitchen, and then went to the talkies to celebrate.")

This series is similar to the Linda Carlton series, but the middle-class heroine is somewhat more believable. 

Publishing info incomplete.

  1. ROBERTA'S FLYING COURAGE -- 1930. Saalfeld .

  2. LURTISS FIELD MYSTERY -- 1930. World Syndicate.

  3. THE AIRPLANE GIRL AND THE MYSTERY OF SEAL ISLANDS (Also published as "The Mystery of Seal Islands) -- 1931. World Syndicate Publishing Co.; Saalfield.

  4. THE ARCTIC ISLAND MYSTERY (Alternate title: "Airplane Girl and the Mystery Ship") -- "Stranded in the Arctic, Roberta, the Airplane Girl, investigates the mystery of an old shipwreck and finally breaks up the seal hunting gang" -- 1931. World Syndicate Publishing Co.

 

 

 

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WorldCat Holdings

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