Volume 3 of the original Tom Swift book series, titled Tom Swift and His Airship, or The Stirring Cruise of the Red Cloud, was released by Grosset & Dunlap. In Tom Swift and His Airship, Tom Swift describes the Red Cloud, an airship that is quick and cutting-edge. Tom is eager for a cross-country trip, but the Shopton bank is robbed right before he and his buddies leave. Tom is immediately held responsible for the heist after taking off. He finds himself suddenly a wanted fugitive, but he doesn't understand why until he has travelled halfway across the nation. Tom needs to hurry return to Shopton to clear his name before being blasted out of the sky because there is neither a safe harbor nor a buddy on the ground below.