TITLE | Marazan | Remarks |
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Published: | 1926 | |
Setting: | Early 1920s | |
Story: | An overworked Pilot with an Air Taxi Service crashes his aircraft and becomes involved in shadowing and eventually trapping a gang of drug smugglers operating a seaplane from the Scilly Islands. | |
Locations: | Brief references to Manchester and Paris. Main activities in South West England and Marazan Sound in the Scilly Isles | |
Main Characters: | Captain Philip Stenning | |
Flying Episodes: | Haphazard Air Taxi operations; Interception of Air-smugglers | |
Aircraft: | Unspecified 2 seater biplane used as Air Taxi; Unspecified single-engined 10 seater to France; Smugglers Seaplane ‘the old Chipmunk’ Interceptor bi-plane; Military Siskins | |
Flying Characters: | Captain Philip Stenning | |
Aviation Location(s): | Manchester, Hounslow, Croydon and Le Bourget; Near High Wycombe (crashed); Marazan Sound; Exmoor and Salisbury Plain | |
Aviation Activities | Air Taxi and Aerial Photography; Croydon – Le Bourget carrying passengers; Smugglers use of seaplane; Interception by Biplane | |
Additional Comments: | Repeated haphazard and casual passenger flying. Deliberate buzzing of grounded smugglers; accidentally kills one of them. |