| TITLE | PILOTAGE | Remarks |
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| Published: | 1961 HOUSE OF STRATUS (after Shute's death) | |
| Setting: | Late 1920s | |
| Story: |
Peter Dennison needs to make money to marry.
Sailing in the Solent he is in collision with a tycoon's yacht carrying Stephen Morris and is persuaded to join a venture to exploit the expedition of trans-Atlantic Air Mail. With Morris as the pilot and Dennison the navigator in a small flying boat, they are catapulted from the deck of a freighter, 1000 miles out in the Atlantic, in an attempt to land safely in Cornwall. |
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| Locations: |
The Solent
The Atlantic The Bristol Channel |
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| Main Characters: |
Sir David Fisher (Wealthy magnate)
Captain Rawdon (Aircraft engineer) Stephen Morris (Test Pilot, Rawdon Aircraft Co) Peter Dennison (Penniless solicitor & yachtsman) |
Girlfriend & wife
Sheila Helen Morris (nee Riley) |
| Flying Episodes: | Throughout much of the latter part of the story (first half is mainly sailing) | |
| Aircraft: | The single-engined Flying Boat | Very little description |
| Flying Characters: |
Stephen Morris (pilot of the Flying Boat)
Peter Dennison (Navigator) |
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| Aviation Location(s): |
The Solent
The North Atlantic |
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| Aviation Activities |
Trials of Catapult Launch on the
Iberian
Launching from the Atlantic Night Landing at Padstow, an island near Baltimore in Ireland |
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| Additional Comments: | Several characters eg, Rawdon, and Morris and his new wife emerge from STEPHEN MORRIS qv |
