Summary
Set in a future aviation world, this adventure opens with the destruction of the transpacific mail airship Langley by a mysterious aerial pirate. The incident is reported through newspaper and wireless accounts, describing masked airmen, cannon fire, the loss of valuable cargo, and the rescue of passengers and crew by a passing steamer. The story centers on officials in the Air Department as they confront an act of piracy unlike anything in ordinary modern travel.
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