There are a couple of good Nevil Shute books about aircraft engineering. He was an engineer and involved in making the R100 airship - his autobiography Slide Rule gives fascinating insight into this and the R101 airship disaster.
He also wrote a fiction book No Highway In The Sky that again deals with aircraft engineering. It was also made into a film starring James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich.
He has a lovely engaging writing style, not unlike the tone of Robert Harris' Pompeii actually.
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There are a couple of good Nevil Shute books about aircraft engineering. He was an engineer and involved in making the R100 airship - his autobiography Slide Rule gives fascinating insight into this and the R101 airship disaster.
He also wrote a fiction book No Highway In The Sky that again deals with aircraft engineering. It was also made into a film starring James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich.
He has a lovely engaging writing style, not unlike the tone of Robert Harris' Pompeii actually.