 Maitland wrote "Knights of the Air", a history of early aviation emphasizing "aviation firsts" that included his own transpacific flight, and was published in 1929.He then undertook writing "Skyroads" a serialized comic strip about aviation in 1929 with artist and fellow World War I pilot Dick Calkins.The pair continued to release "Skyroads" until they passed the writing and drawing duties to Calkins' assistant Russell Keaton in 1933.