Ted Scott Flying Stories

Ted Scott Flying Stories (series)

Over the Ocean to Paris (1927)
Author	Franklin W. Dixon
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Juvenile adventure
Publisher	Grosset & Dunlap
Publication date	1927-1943

The Ted Scott Flying Stories was a series of juvenile aviation adventures created by the Stratemeyer Syndicate using the pseudonym of Franklin W. Dixon (also used for The Hardy Boys) and published almost exclusively by Grosset & Dunlap. The novels were produced between 1927-1943. The principal author was John W. Duffield, who also contributed to the "Don Sturdy" and "Bomba the Jungle Boy" series. As "Richard H. Stone" he also launched a second Stratemeyer aviation series, the "Slim Tyler Air stories" [1930-1932].Duffield was a conscientious student of aeronautical technology, and long passages in the Ted Scott books can be traced to such sources as "Aviation", the "New York Times," "Aero Digest," and "Science."

The series featured Ted Scott, a public aviation hero rather than merely an amateur aviator. In the first book in the series, Over the Ocean to Paris published in 1927, Ted Scott got his fame for being the first pilot to fly over the Atlantic Ocean to Paris, a feat first accomplished in the real world by Charles Lindbergh in May of that year.

One book from the Ted Scott series appears to be the first Stratemeyer Syndicate book to be reprinted in a foreign country and language, in the first half of the 1930s. Cover and interior art are different from the G & D editions.