Aerospace Engineer: Turns Free Time into Literary Fame

摘要

In flight, Nevil Norway climbed out of the giant experimental airship he helped design. Emerging near the bow he knew the wind would be at his back as he negotiated the catwalk. Up on top, riggers looking for tears in the R-100's fabric nonchalantly walked with hands in pockets, while Norway crawled on hands and knees clinging to guide ropes. He would talk to them while sitting by the fins and later recalled the sunlit rides as pleasant. Norway, a British aerospace engineer recently graduated after the Great War, wasn't just doing stress analysis on the airship. In the evenings, Nevil Shute Norway was also writing fiction tor his own amusement. For nearly two decades, the author known as Nevil Shute pursued a demanding career in aerospace while writing a series of novels. These and his later novels, many with aviation themes and some made into movies, remain popular today.