Hi Cardinal. Mustafagander and others are right about Nevil Shute. He was there not at the beginning but early on in aviation. His Slide Rule is a truly interesting study of getting started in aircraft manufacture, the problems of building a company on a shoestring, business ethics and the pressures to bend them, the effect of an unexpected sale on the compoany's survival. Not least is his comparison of the construction and pre-flight preparation of the dirigible airship R 100, which did not crash, and the R 101, which did. That last must have been in his mind when he wrote No Highway.