Un ingegnere aeronautico prevede che un nuovo modello di aereo fallirà in modo catastrofico e in un modo nuovo dopo un numero specifico di ore di volo.Un ingegnere aeronautico prevede che un nuovo modello di aereo fallirà in modo catastrofico e in un modo nuovo dopo un numero specifico di ore di volo.Un ingegnere aeronautico prevede che un nuovo modello di aereo fallirà in modo catastrofico e in un modo nuovo dopo un numero specifico di ore di volo.
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- BlooperAt Gander Airport in Newfoundland, the pilot refuses to allow Honey back on the plane to continue to Montreal, whilst Miss Corder tells him they'll see him in Montreal, but since Honey was on his way to Labrador, which was part of Newfoundland, to investigate the previous Reindeer crash, he would have been leaving the plane at Gander and not going on to Montreal in the first place.
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Elspeth Honey: it's very hard being a scientist. One has to think a great deal. The world would have made scarcely any progress at all if it hadn't been for scientists.
Dennis Scott: I see. The scientists do the thinking for the world, and the rest of us just live in it, is that it?
Elspeth Honey: Yes.
- ConnessioniFeatured in Boom! Hollywood's Greatest Disaster Movies (2000)
His real name was Nevil Shute Norway. He is remembered for his writing, in particular the novels A TOWN NAMED ALICE and ON THE BEACH. But he was also an aviation engineer. Working for Vickers, he helped design all types of aircraft. In particular, he helped in the building of the zeppelin R-100 which Vickers designed in a contest between private industry and the government. A Labor government in office was trying to demonstrate the superiority of government sponsored projects over private industry. The R-100 proved a perfectly adequate zeppelin, that did a maiden trip to and from Canada safely. The government sponsored R-101 crashed on its first voyage in France, and killed 44 out of 48 men on board, including the Secretary of State for Air, Lord Thomson (who had pushed the project) and most of the government's aviation experts. Shute wrote a very good account of his career as an engineer, and of the R-101 Tragedy, entitled SLIDE-RULE. I recommend reading it if you ever get a chance. It helps explain the experience he brought to the writing of NO HIGHWAY.
- theowinthrop
- 27 apr 2004
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