Sky Ray

Sky Ray, manufactured by J. H. Keeney and Company in June 1941, is a flipperless, single-player electro-mechanical pinball machine with an aviation theme, part of a wave of aviation-themed pre-flipper games produced in the early 1940s.

Gameplay centers on five balls per play, navigating a field of 14 bumpers and seven trap holes. As a flipperless design, scoring depended entirely on how the ball's momentum and the layout of the bumpers and trap holes directed it, requiring a different kind of skill than later flipper-equipped games.

The aviation theme is represented through period artwork typical of the era's fascination with flight. Little information is available about the machine's designer or the specific trivia surrounding its creation, but Sky Ray remains a representative example of the flipperless, aviation-themed pinball common just before flippers transformed the game.