THE
NON-STOP
STOWAWAY

THIS is a story for boys who want to know of the thrillsand joys of Aviation. It is written by a war flyer whowas a pilot with a squadron at the front and who therelearned to know how he and other young men reacted to those dangerousmoments when lightning-quick decisions were necessary.

He has seen many boys learning to fly, and observed howmost of them, after they had learned, acted in a crisis with theutmost coolness whether it was the sing of a bullet or the missof a motor that brought the warning of danger.

He knows that those flyers were wrong in their belief duringthe war that no flying in peace time could equal the thrill andtingle of the nervous excitement which they were then experiencing.

Since the war ended, the design of planes and engines has sofar advanced that distances are being spanned now that theynever then believed possible.

Nature has put dangers in the paths of our modern flyers,as great or greater than that of an enemy, for from the momentsof the dangerous take-off with tremendous loads of fuel, untilthe landing on another Continent, there can be no relaxation.

And after watching the planes leave for long ocean flightswhere no safe landing can be made for many hours, we have cometo realize and appreciate the strain these pilots are under.

When several of these bidders for long distance honors havefailed to appe