Tom Swift and His Sky Racer, or, The Speediest Flight on Record, is Volume 9 in the original Tom Swift novel series published by Grosset & Dunlap.

A $10,000 prize lures Tom into competing at a local aviation meet at Eagle Park.

However, the Sky Racer, is smaller and faster — making it ideal for air racing.

It uses a single gasoline, air-cooled engine, which can attain air speeds of well over 100 mph with a minimum thrust of 1000 lbs at 2000rpm.

Tom also invented an automated stabilizing unit which allowed the Sky Racer to handle adverse weather conditions without loss of control.