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Flying Summary: Marazan

TITLE Marazan Remarks
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.