Janetter crash6/27/2023 ![]() At home, Corder worries what he will live on and discovers that he has not deposited his salary in the bank for seven months. He resigns and threatens to protest at the departure of every Rutland Reindeer-and collapse them, too. Honey finally objects, refusing to be railroaded. Corder is angered by his readiness to surrender and his failure to see how Elspeth is suffering.ĭuring a board meeting, Sir David questions Honey's sanity. ![]() ![]() Honey returns to his experiment but the 1440th hour soon passes without any structural failure. Teasdale, who has also been helping Elspeth, abruptly leaves for California, deliberately allowing space for any romance between Corder and Honey to develop. Honey goes home to find the house in order and Corder spending the night with Elspeth. Sir John tells a shaken Honey that he must undergo psychological testing. However, there are powerful men who demand that Honey be repudiated to discredit his unproved theory, and to save the reputation of British passenger aviation, now awash in a sea of bad press. The next day, Teasdale speaks to Honey's superiors on his behalf. Honey is detained, and Corder offers to go to Elspeth when she returns to England. Honey takes drastic action to stop the flight by retracting the landing gear, dropping the aircraft on its belly and wrecking it. The Reindeer lands safely at Gander Airport in Newfoundland, and an inspection clears it to continue on its route. Teasdale believes Honey and through a night of waiting she grows close to him, as does stewardess Marjorie Corder. Honey also shows the safest place to survive a crash to renowned Hollywood actress Monica Teasdale, who meant a great deal to his wife. Despite the fact that his theory is not yet proven, he warns the captain, who contacts London for advice. He was told that all Reindeer have only 500 hours in service, but is shocked to learn that this early production aircraft had already logged 1422 hours at takeoff. Honey is sent to Labrador to examine the wreckage, but finds himself flying across the Atlantic on a Reindeer airliner. He informs Sir John, the head of RAE, who puts the vibration test on a 24-hour basis. The tail was never found, the pilot was blamed, and Scott suspects Honey's theory is correct. In the company bar, Scott runs into a test pilot, an old friend from WWII, who tells him about the recent crash of a Reindeer in Labrador. Scott notes that commercial planes are building up miles faster than the experiment, and Honey becomes very upset, declaring that he is a scientist, he can't be concerned about people. Honey tells Scott he expects failure to occur after 1440 flight hours. The perfect embodiment of the absent-minded professor, Honey has educated his brilliant but reserved 12-year-old daughter, Elspeth, at home, without any real understanding of a child's need for play and friends. Scott gives Honey a ride home and learns that he is a widower whose wife was killed by a V2 rocket during the war. ( Destructive testing, revolutionary in 1951, became standard operating procedure in aircraft development.) Honey is running a fatigue test on the fin and tailplane ( empennage) of a Reindeer, using a very high vibration rate dynamic shaker in an eight-hour daily test cycle (determined by complaints from neighbours). ![]() The film also introduces the term " boffin" for the under-appreciated and seemingly self-centred and eccentric scientist, as distinct from earlier usage to describe a scientist who is making vital (and appreciated) contributions.ĭennis Scott, new chief of metallurgy at the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough, is introduced to Theodore Honey, an eccentric American scientist who is testing his theory that the new Rutland Reindeer aircraft is susceptible to structural failure of the tailplane. Also, the role of Scott, the recently appointed administrator who narrates the novel, is curtailed in the film version which means that the featured scientist, Mr Honey, comes across as more eccentric than in the novel, changing the relationship between them. Although the film follows the plot of Shute's novel in general, No Highway in the Sky notably omits references to the supernatural contained in the original novel, including the use of automatic writing to resolve a key element in the original novel's story. It was one of the first films that depicted a potential aviation disaster involving metal fatigue. The film stars James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns, Jack Hawkins, Janette Scott, Elizabeth Allan, Ronald Squire, and Jill Clifford. Sherriff, Oscar Millard, and Alec Coppel, based on the 1948 novel No Highway by Nevil Shute. No Highway in the Sky (also known as No Highway) is a 1951 black-and-white aviation drama film directed by Henry Koster from a screenplay by R.
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