"Vintage" Plane Ride

[goldenandru]

wow,so cool.

 

[Doc Smith]

Incidentally if you like vintage aircraft you should read Slide Rule, the autobiography of Airspeed's founder. The book came out in 1954 and covers his career from the twenties to the fifties. It was published in the US as R101.

Nevil Shute Norway, the founder of Airspeed, was also Nevil Shute, one of the bestselling novelists of the 40s through the 60s. Even if you haven't read his novels (which are still entirely worth reading), you may have seen movies based off his stories: "On the Beach," "A Town Like Alice," and "Pied Piper." I don't know how many of his aircraft are still in service, but his novels have been in print for the past 50 years or so.