Hovering Harold!

Hovering Harold! is a magazine story.

Plot
One day, Thomas is making his way to the main station with some trucks when he passes Harold hovering over his airfield. Thomas asks Harold what he is doing and Harold explains how he is waiting to land. Thomas is glad that engines have no use for hovering and are too busy to stay in one place like Harold is.

Once at the main station, The Fat Controller instructs Thomas to collect flatbeds of logs from the sawmill. Thomas is pleased and knows that, unlike Harold, he will not be wasting time hovering around. At the sawmill, a big crane loads Thomas' flatbeds and the manager tells him to take the logs to the harbour.

Thomas puffs as hard as he can with his big load when, suddenly, the chains holding the logs snap and the logs tumble all over the tracks. Thomas' driver runs back to the sawmill and calls the airfield. Harold soon arrives and beings to load the logs back onto the flatbed with his winch. Thomas now has to admit that hovering can be very useful.

Characters

 * Thomas
 * Harold
 * Sir Topham Hatt

Goofs

 * Harold's cockpit is gray in all illustrations but the last.
 * Thomas' trucks at the start of the story are said to be empty but the illustration shows they are full of stone.