His knowledge and love of aircraft and aircraft design are reflected in this book. Nevil Shute Norway, to give the author's full name, was a pioneer aircraft designer and formerly Chief Executive of Airspeed Ltd. The novel contains many of the ingredients that made Shute popular as a novelist, and, like several other of Shute's later novels, includes an element of the supernatural. It later formed the basis of the 1951 film No Highway in the Sky. No Highway is a 1948 novel by Nevil Shute. The anti-hero of the story, Theodore Honey, is engaged in research on the fatigue of aluminium airframes. It formed the basis of the 1951 film No Highway in the Sky. The story eerily foretold the structural failures that two 1950s BOAC Comets were subsequently to suffer.

The story of a British aeronautical structural engineer who tries to convince the flight crew of a transatlantic airliner that its tail is in imminent danger of falling off. He fails to make the story come clear or the characters emerge from two dimensional patterns. And it's possibly the best depiction I've seen of the way work doesn't wait until you're done with one thing to present you with another! Fun story, well-written (of course), worth reading and likely worth rereading in a couple years. This item: No Highway by Nevil Shute Paperback 9.12 An Old Captivity (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) by Nevil Shute Paperback 16.99 Requiem For a Wren by Nevil Shute Paperback 8. A disappointment from Nevil Shute, who somehow- for this reader- does not come to grips with the potentials of his story, which fuses fiction and science. It's an odd story from several angles - there's at least two protagonists on the airplane side, and two more on the romance side (oh yeah, there's a romance. Then the scientific facts (well, theories, at that point) run into personalities and politics and finances and on and on, and things get complicated. The investigation of technical matters relating to airplane safety - in this case, metal fatigue (very little understood at the time) leading to the tail of a particular type of aircraft literally falling off in the air - is the basis of the story not a subject I know anything about, but I understood the matter probably as well as the narrator did (he says, multiple times, that he's not able to truly understand it but he trusts the researcher who does).

No highway by nevil shute