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The technical details of a trans-Atlantic flight of this period (late 1930s) are accurate and of interest. The type of aircraft is a fictional radial-engined floatplane intended for bush use, made by a fictional Detroit firm named Cosmos. It corresponds roughly to the performance of a Noorduyn Norseman.
One of the first aircraft to be designed by Heinemann was the Moreland M-1 Trainer of 1929, a braced-wing parasol wing monoplane. Due to the 1929 recession only a small number were sold before the company ceased trading in 1933.
Kermit Van Every (March 5, 1915 – November 20, 1998) was a noted American aeronautical engineer best known for his work in the area of very high-speed flight. He was a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and had the unusual distinction of receiving the Wright Brothers Medal twice, in 1948 and 1958.
The Flight of the Heron; The Flight of the Phoenix (novel) Flowers for the Judge; The Flying Dutchman (novel) The Fool of the Family; For Services Rendered; The Fortunes of Richard Mahony; Found in the Street; Found, Lost, Found; The Foundling (Heyer novel) Friday's Child (novel) Funnybones; Further Adventures of the Family from One End Street
Rudolph J. Heinemann, also known as Rudolf J. Heinemann, (1901 – February 7, 1975) was a German-born American art dealer and collector of Old Masters. He was an advisor to Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza , who established a museum in Lugano , Switzerland with his help.
The novel was first published by William Heinemann in the UK and by Doubleday in the US, where it was the August 1970 Book of the Month Club selection. Elleston Trevor was then a successful and prolific novelist, best known in the US for his 1964 novel The Flight of the Phoenix and the 1965 film based on it.
William Heinemann began working in the publishing industry under Nicolas Trübner, [2] who was a major publisher of what was called Oriental scholarship. [3] When, two years after Trübner's death, his company was taken over by the firm of Kegan Paul, Heinemann left and founded William Heinemann Ltd in Covent Garden, London, in 1890. [2]
The two get along well, causing Love to miss his flight; the plane he should have been on explodes shortly after take-off. Love starts to get suspicious about Simone. Love arrives in Tehran and meets another agent, Parkington, who has also been dispatched to Tehran on the same mission.