Brilliant stuff! I heard about you two flying in that contraption through the Brooklands grapevine this morning. Seeing those grins on Julian’s photos tell it all really.

I’ll be off to get a bit envious now…

(always better to judge by achievements than by pedigree is what I’d say 😉 :rolleyes: )

I’ve only known Steve from reading his posts and looking at photos. I don’t think I can add much to this apart from my heartfelt condolences. The forum has lost a character, the world has lost a great human being.

Jelle.

In addition to the above:

See if you’ve got Microsoft Photo Editor somewhere on your system (usually lurks in the Microsoft Office Tools folder in the Start menu). If you have Office 97, 2000 or XP it should be included, and if not installed is easily added from the CD.

Open the saved file from the scanner in the program, find ‘Image’ and ‘Resize’ in the menus, set the units to ‘pixels’, and adjust to 700 or 800 pixels wide. After doing this, in the ‘Save as…’ dialog press the button ‘More >>’ and set the slider to 40% quality or thereabouts. Then SAVE THE IMAGE UNDER A DIFFERENT NAME! This way you can always go back to the original (large) image if you need any details. The new image should now be ready for uploading on the forum.

Having discussed Nevil Shute, has anybody read some of Gavin Lyall’s books? He was an ex-RAF pilot and a few of his earlier novels incorporated quite a few aircraft. Worth reading are (does include aircraft):
– The wrong side of the sky
– Shooting script
– The most dangerous game
– Judas country
Still worth reading (but less/no aircraft):
– Blame the dead
– Midnight plus one
– Venus with pistol
– Spy’s honour, Flight from honour etc.

I thought I’d got all of Nevil Shute’s books but I’ve never heard of Pilotage (Published together with ‘Stephen Morris’ under that title as Kansan already pointed out).

Time to go searching.

For me it was one of the trickier ones to find. I finally got myself a copy when I spotted one in a small secondhand bookshop in Brighton two years ago. This means that I’ve got all his titles, except ‘Vinland the Good’ and ‘The Seafarers’. :rolleyes: Looking through the titles I noticed there were a few that I haven’t looked at for a long time. Guess I need to dig them out again! 🙂

Neville Shute was a good writer, but if you read some of his early stories you can tell that he went through a learning process. What has always amazed me is that he adressed quite a few off-standard subjects in his books. ‘On the Beach’ is well-known and a good example of this.

Aviation connections are present in: ‘Round the Bend’, ‘In the Wet’, ‘No Highway’, ‘So Disdained’, ‘Pastoral’ and many other titles.

I’ll definitively second ‘Slide Rule’ as a must read!