Danny Orlis and the Model Plane Mystery
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Book 74
Gary Trumbo, eager to build a model airplane that truly flies, joins a model plane club to learn the skills he needs.
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Gary Trumbo, eager to build a model airplane that truly flies, joins a model plane club to learn the skills he needs. With his parents serving as missionaries, they can’t afford the engine and remote control required for his project. When Chuck Grover, a club member who scoffs at religion, is assigned to mentor Gary, he decides to “help” by stealing the equipment from a store and secretly giving it to Gary. However, Gary is soon caught with the stolen items and must now face the consequences for something he didn’t himself do.
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2 reviews for Danny Orlis and the Model Plane Mystery
I enjoy and am challenged by this book. I know it was written to appeal to teenagers, and I am sure many teenagers enjoyed and were challenged by the first edition (1975), and many more will likewise enjoy this new edition. However, I am much older (85), and I can say I read it straight through at one sitting. It is that gripping!
The value of the Danny Orlis series is in the eternal truths, and this book is no different.
In this book, we meet Gary Trumbo, a missionary’s kid, who with his family is settling into a town in Colorado while his dad attends missionary flight school. Gary, himself, would like to learn to fly, but due to his age, has to settle for building a model airplane and flying it. He decides to join a local model plane club. And that is where the trouble begins.
Gary begins to build his model airplane under the mentorship of an older boy, Chuck Grover. Chuck is bad news. But rather than spoil the entire plot of the story, I will shift my review to the eternal truths presented.
Early on, Gary has to deal with disappointment over the lack of his family’s resources to buy a part that is necessary for his model airplane. Rather than applying Proverbs 3:5-6, Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight, Gary looks to Chuck for a solution.
When false accusations fall on Gary, Chuck betrays him, and leaves him to face his accusers alone. Gary confides in his dad regarding his problem. In 1 Peter 3:16, we are told to keep a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander. To his credit, Gary behaves honorably although it causes him much pain. In the end, that suffering produces character in him, just as Romans 5:3-5 tells us it will. Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.
The story ends well with Gary learning a lesson, justice being done, answered prayer proving that we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him., and who have been called according to His purpose (Romans 8:28).
This book was given to me with no compensation for review purposes by the publisher.