Aeronautical details show up in several of his novels (including the one at hand) - most famously No Highway, which concerned the failure of an airplane due to metal fatigue - which happened just a few years later to the DeHavilland Comet. Shute later formed his own company, which developed the Envoy, a trainer for the UK air force. He graduated from Oxford with an Engineering degree (Mechanical Engineering, we'd say now) and worked on airplanes and airships - notably leading the development of the R-100, a promising British dirigible project that was scrapped after a test airship from a parallel government project crashed. He served in the First World War in its late months.
Nevil Shute Norway was born in England in 1899, His father became head of the Post Office in Ireland (shades of Trollope!), and Shute spent a few years there, and tended the wounded during the Easter Rising in 1916.
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