Steam Bird — Hilbert Schenck

THE SI LAM WILL FUSE AGAIN!

Moosefoot AFB houses the most secret aircraft in America's arsenal: the Samuel Langley -- a nuclear-powered steam locomotive. attack bomber? The ultimate steam machine, waiting thirty years to sail the sky...

Langley has problems. A few. It's enormous. It's radioactive. It's never been flown. It's too big to evade missiles, too slow to outfly a drunk seagull, it might explode on takeoff...and it has nowhere to land.

But in a moment of mini-crisis, the White House orders Colonel Bob Muth and his loyal crew to launch Langley. Now it's up -- and not coming down, flying full steam ahead to make the world witness the most triumphant dream in the glorious history of Steam...

Even if it starts World War III