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No Highway (1948)

di Nevil Shute

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Fiction. Literature. Thriller. HTML: Theodore Honey is a shy, inconspicuous engineer whose eccentric interests are frowned upon in aviation circles. When a passenger plane crashes in Newfoundland under unexplained circumstances, Honey is determined to prove his unorthodox theory about what went wrong to his superiors, before more lives are lost. But while flying to the crash scene to investigate, Honey discovers to his horror that he is on board one of the defective planes and that he and his fellow passengers, including a friendly young stewardess and an aging movie actress, are in imminent peril.… (altro)
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Totally unexpected story. Unsure how it works in with the title but I enjoyed. ( )
  SteveMcI | Jan 5, 2024 |
The suspense was just right. There were a few areas which were kind of ponderous, but I never got lost. A great story. ( )
  bcrowl399 | Apr 29, 2023 |
That's good - in a very Shute style. The investigation of technical matters relating to airplane safety - in this case, metal fatigue (very little understood at the time) leading to the tail of a particular type of aircraft literally falling off in the air - is the basis of the story; not a subject I know anything about, but I understood the matter probably as well as the narrator did (he says, multiple times, that he's not able to truly understand it but he trusts the researcher who does). Then the scientific facts (well, theories, at that point) run into personalities and politics and finances and on and on, and things get complicated. It's an odd story from several angles - there's at least two protagonists on the airplane side, and two more on the romance side (oh yeah, there's a romance. Or two, or one and a half...). And it's possibly the best depiction I've seen of the way work doesn't wait until you're done with one thing to present you with another! Fun story, well-written (of course), worth reading and likely worth rereading in a couple years. ( )
  jjmcgaffey | Sep 3, 2022 |
A lot of technical stuff about airplanes mixed with lots of human interest. Shute often writes about airplanes, and it's good knowing that he really knows about them.

BTW, Feminists should probably give this one a miss. In 1948 it seemed to make sense that a brilliant scientist needed a woman to keep his house clean and bring up his daughter properly. ( )
  MarthaJeanne | Jun 19, 2022 |
An interesting little story about an aircraft designer who is convinced that a particular plane will crash on a particular date and his journey to stop that from happening.

Another British novel that has undertones of class and expectations. A good read. ( )
  Ken-Me-Old-Mate | Sep 24, 2020 |
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… Therefore, go forth, companion: when you find
No highway more, no track, all being blind,
The way to go shall glimmer in the mind.

Though you have conquered Earth and charted Sea
And planned the courses of all Stars that be,
Adventure on, more wonders are in thee.

Adventure on, for from the littlest clue
Has come whatever worth man ever knew;
The next to lighten all men may be you...

JOHN MASEFIELD
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When I was put in charge of the Structural Department of the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough, I was thirty-four years old.
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Fiction. Literature. Thriller. HTML: Theodore Honey is a shy, inconspicuous engineer whose eccentric interests are frowned upon in aviation circles. When a passenger plane crashes in Newfoundland under unexplained circumstances, Honey is determined to prove his unorthodox theory about what went wrong to his superiors, before more lives are lost. But while flying to the crash scene to investigate, Honey discovers to his horror that he is on board one of the defective planes and that he and his fellow passengers, including a friendly young stewardess and an aging movie actress, are in imminent peril.

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