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Description
Characteristic
| Book cover finish | Perfect paperback |
| Special features | First edition, Dust jacket |
| Conditions | Acceptable |
| Number of pages | 306 |
| Published date | 1958 |
| Language | English |
| Size | 13 x 20 x 3 cm |
| Author | Nevil Shute |
| Editor | HEINEMANN |
What's this all about?
Chapter One
John Pascoe must have created something like a record for a pilot in civil aviation, because he went on flying a D.C.6b across the Pacific from Sydney to Vancouver as a senior captain of AusCan Airways till he was sixty years old.
The Department of Civil Aviation stuck their toes in then. They couldn't stop him flying because he was still perfectly fit and could pass every medical test they could think up. Perhaps they were afraid of what the papers might say if there should ever be an accident.
At any rate, they refused to renew his license for regular airline flying, on the score of age. He took his pension and bought three small aeroplanes out of his savings, and formed himself into a small aero club and superphosphate spreading company at Buxton in Tasmania. Flying was his whole life and he had few other interests, so he went on flying. ( ... )
Excerpt from page No. I.
