Nevil Shute

Writing began alongside Nevil Shute Norway's substantial aeronautical-engineering career. He worked on airships, co-founded Airspeed in 1931 and remained a joint managing director until 1938, when he left the aircraft industry. The novelist Nevil Shute kept engineering problems, ordinary competence and technical responsibility close to his fiction. His memoir Slide Rule is a useful starting point because it lets the first career remain visible instead of treating it as mere preparation.