Tom Swift and the Flaming Air Battle: Swift by Name and Swift by Nature!

New York is suddenly in flames! Factories, lumberyards, barns, boats, and skyscrapers go up in a mysterious burst of flames - all provide fodder for Tom's latest brain-child, an aerial fire suppression system. At the same time....a research chemist, working on a new dye formula is swindled, Eradicate Sampson is severely injured in a chemical explosion, and Tom further ingratiates himself with his girlfriend's family, by rescuing not one, but two family members from fiery death.. Tom Swift, the inspirational boyhood hero of Steve Wozniak and Isaac Asimov, is an all-American young inventor in his teens. These fantastic and future-predicting stories are VERY alive today. Swift was modeled after the entrepreneurial and inventive geniuses Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, who both changed our world more than any other two people. Like Arthur C. Clarke, Swift invented or predicted many modern discoveries including the Taser, camcorder, video-phone, electric car, and several others.