The Great Airport Mystery Quotes

“CHAPTER VIII Masked Attacker THERE was a moment of thunderstruck silence. Who had stolen the Hardys’ camera and films and why? Randy was apologetic, saying he felt responsible for leaving the plane unattended. “I’ll pay for the loss,” he declared. “We wouldn’t consider it,” Frank said, shaking his head. “Besides, it’s not so much the camera we’re worried about.” “The films?” “Right,” Joe added quickly. He cast a glance at his brother. “You probably have the same suspicion I do, Frank. The thief might have wanted to prevent us from developing those pictures.” “Then why did he take the camera too?” was Randy’s next query. “Because he figured there was more exposed film in it,” Frank explained. “Good reasoning,” Randy agreed. The boys recalled the small crowd that had collected on the ramp when their plane taxied in. Jerry Madden had been among them. Perhaps, Frank thought,”
― Franklin W. Dixon, The Great Airport Mystery

“nephews but constantly scolded them for not being cautious enough”
― Franklin W. Dixon, The Great Airport Mystery

“Hil” he called.”
― Franklin W. Dixon, The Great Airport Mystery

“looked thoughtful.”
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“Anyway, we were both busy ducking!” Diamond”
― Franklin W. Dixon, The Great Airport Mystery

“Anyway, we were both busy ducking”
― Franklin W. Dixon, The Great Airport Mystery

“When he reached the selected cruising altitude, Jerry set the plane on course. Hour after hour passed as it bore through the sky. Lulled by the drone of the engines, the boys caught up on some sleep. When they awoke, the first light of dawn was breaking in the east. Gradually the light grew brighter, revealing a fascinating mosaic of deep blue and jade green on the surface of the ocean below.”
― Franklin W. Dixon, The Great Airport Mystery

“Chet dashed from the room. Moments later he reappeared, his stout form draped in a white sheet. The others roared with laughter as Chet leaped playfully about the room with the sheet swirling behind him. “Better watch where you’re going!” Frank warned the cavorting phantom. Chet now spread his arms wide under the sheet. Looking like a huge white bat, he took a high running jump across the room. Coming down hard, he tripped on one corner of the sheet. Chet lost his balance, stumbled, then fell and rolled across the room in a tangled mass of cloth. The girls joined in the Hardys’ fresh outburst of laughter. “What’s so funny?” Chet groaned as he struggled to free himself. “I thought I looked pretty scary.”
― Franklin W. Dixon, The Great Airport Mystery

“flashes almost blinding in their intensity.”
― Franklin W. Dixon, The Great Airport Mystery

“The boys reached the flight line just as Randy was completing a preflight check of the aircraft. In a few minutes they were strapped in their seats and taxiing toward the active runway. The pilot remarked, “Because of the direction of the wind, that runway is the only one I can use to head the plane into the wind.” He tuned his radio to the proper frequency and contacted Bayport tower. An immediate reply crackled from the plane’s receiver. “Ace Service Flight Two-Six is cleared to runway One-Niner. Wind’s from the southeast at fifteen knots. Altimeter setting, Two-Niner-Eight-Six.” Randy paused to check his instruments, controls, and engine magnetos. The tower then cleared him for immediate take-off. Turning into the runway, he eased the throttle ahead. Soon he and his passengers were airborne and taking a course to the northwest. The boys gazed down at the earth below. The terrain became more hilly with each passing mile. The expanses of wooded areas looked like rumpled deep-green carpet. Here and there, lakes and small streams reflected the sun in bright”
― Franklin W. Dixon, The Great Airport Mystery

“Light rain was falling, and a heavy prefrontal fog was beginning to move in as the Hardys arrived at the field. They walked to the tower and climbed the winding steps to the top. As they entered the control room, Lou Diamond, the tower chief, waved a greeting. A short, stocky, good-natured man, with crew-cut red hair, he nevertheless had an air of authority.”
― Franklin W. Dixon, The Great Airport Mystery

“You boys picked a fine day to pay us a visit,” he said with a laugh. “In a little while that fog will be so thick you can walk on it.” The Hardys peered through the tinted panes of glass enclosing the control room. Already the ramp area immediately below was vanishing in a milky fog.”
― Franklin W. Dixon, The Great Airport Mystery

“The boys continued their journey in the deepening darkness. Ahead, the road wound through isolated, hilly country. Here and there they encountered patches of light radiation fog, a phenomenon common to this type of terrain.”
― Franklin W. Dixon, The Great Airport Mystery