- Biography, Aeronautical engineers, English Novelists, Authors, english
A fantastic story of a life in the aviation industry, including being the senior mathematician on the R100 airship in Yorkshire and a co-founder of the Airspeed aircraft company.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Nevil Shute
- First published
- 1954
- Pages
- 251
- Publisher
- Heron Books, Penguin Random House, Morrow
- Editions
- 24
- Language
- English, und
- ISBN
- 9785553671402
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