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Hurtling wings (Classic fiction series)
Starring: R. F. Daley,Eric Matheny and Tamra Meskimen.Cannot beleive our ears how evil,Evil was in the pulps.This cd set gives you a first class seat with a exciting hero,Who almost gets us killed (well our ears anyway) along with himself.Makes you wanna go to your local airshow or watch GREAT WALDO PEPPER again.The cast of baddies are truly bent, With their sheer meanness.Good to see the mail was important back then and not dismissed by emails ,Like now.
Hurtling wings (Classic fiction series)
I have grown very fond of L Ron Hubbard's air adventure stories in audiobook.Hurtling Wings is one of several very fun and heroic stories reminiscent to me of the older classic movies by Frank Capra or the movie Captain's Courageous. This Golden Age Story is a fine way to have fun and enjoy the feel of storytelling form that era and a lot of fun entertainment for the commute or vacation trips.
Hurtling wings (Classic fiction series)
I actually listened to the audiobooks and I loved it. These audiobooks are fully dramatized stories with music and sound effect. Like Graphic Audios, except this story and all the other Golden Age Story audiobooks do NOT drawn in the sound effects that Graphic Audios' does.In this audio the sound effects are background sounds. And the story itself is what makes the story a blast to listen to. This story was about test pilot Cal who enters and flies in The National Air Meet competition. He wants to win the contract for Air Mail Transportation. As usual there is a dame in the story (a bit of romance) but this dame is a strong lady! I like strong women! And of course there are villains and danger! Cool thing is that the story is so real, you can tell that the author knew how to fly and has been there.
Hurtling wings (Classic fiction series)
Pulp fiction reached its zenith during the 1930's and 1940's. Magazines like Argosy and Five Stories Monthly were springboards for famous authors like Edgar Rice Burroughs and Isaac Asimov. Another prolific and popular writer of that era was L. Ron Hubbard. His flying ace tale, "Hurtling Wings" was originally published in 1934 in "Adventure" magazine. The mythologist, Joseph Campbell writes that "popular tales represent the heroic action as physical," and this tale about Cal Bradley, daredevil racer and test pilot is no exception. Heroic Cal Bradley flies in the face of saboteurs and sabotaged planes to try to save Speed Kyle's aircraft company. Hubbard knows how to write a page turner...his "pulp hero," Cal Bradley, man of courage in the cockpit races, rolls, and dives in a non stop fight to win.
Hurtling wings (Classic fiction series)
This is the story of a racer and test pilot Cal Bradley who has entered an air meet to win air mail contracts. It was the creating of the air mail routes that really paved the way for commercial flight. This is a story that takes this one historical fact and builds an exciting adventure around it.
Hurtling wings (Classic fiction series)
"Hurtling Wings"by L. Ron HubbardMulticast PerformanceProduced by Galaxy AudioApprox 2 hoursI've got to tell you, these audio book releases from Galaxy audio are just plain fun. During the mid-20th century L. Ron Hubbard eked out a living by writing stories for the many pulp fiction magazines that were in heavy circulation at the time. He wrote the stories in various genres so he could cover a wide range of the publications and even used aliases/pen names for some of the stories. Some of the genres he wrote in are; Science-Fiction, Westerns, Mystery, Fantasy, and Adventure (the adventure could be further broken down to sea, air and orient adventures.) Galaxy Press began re-releasing these stories and packaging them down to books that cover the various genres. Galaxy Audio in turning these into audio books has gone a huge step further by creating some very entertaining audio drama with each book.Each book contains one or more stories, and with the audio books these come out to about 2 hours of pure audio pleasure. Using a cast of very talented vocal actors, these stories come to life in full audio glory. The actors not only perform the characters they create the mood and express the action they make you HAVE to listen to the stories. The sound effects are not simply thrown in when the story asks for it but instead layered into the full production so that they fit perfectly in to make the full experience completely engulf the listener.So with all that in mind I try out another genre in the Hubbard/Galaxy inventory and gave "Hurtling Wings" an air adventure a listen. Soon I was caught up in the action and enjoying the full theatrical spectacle that is this audio book.Hurtling Wings was originally published in "Adventure" November,1934, and seems at first like a simple story about aircraft racing teams competing in various aerial events. But with Hubbard's stories from the Golden Age nothing is simple. Cal Bradley is a daredevil racer and test pilot and during the acrobatics section of the event loses his plane in what turns out to be sabotage. Speed Kyle's company which builds the best planes around needs a good pilot to show of his planes at this event. This National Air Meet is important because the winner of the meet could get a valuable air mail contract, which could pull Speed's company out of the possibility of financial ruin.Cal happens to be dating Speed's daughter Georgia, and this means they could be together more, but the sabotage follows Cal as it turns that some of the other businesses competing are not very honest. During the various flying contests Cal battles sabotaged planes to keep them in the air and battles the saboteurs to keep everyone around him safe. The excitement of this story will have you on the edge of your seat the whole time and not until everyone is safe and back on the ground can you relax.Check out this latest release from Galaxy Audio for some exciting air adventures from the Golden Age of stories.