Slide Rule

Slide Rule recounts Nevil Shute's experiences from childhood fascination with aviation, through his work as a draughtsman at De Havilland, chief calculator on the R100 airship, to establishing and managing Airspeed Limited during the Great Depression.

It highlights the successful private R100 versus the disastrous government-backed R101 crash, critiquing bureaucracy in engineering projects, and covers test flights and aircraft development up to 1938.