Graeme Davis’ love of classic aviation shines through every narrative rivet and spanner of “Against the Air Pirates”, his perfectly evoked 30s South Sea adventure genre, featured in The New Hero.
“Anyone who has known me for any length of time will be able to tell you that I’m a plane geek. Specifically, a vintage plane geek. More specifically still, a 30s and 40s plane geek. I can bore the pants off anyone with trivia about obscure WWII fighters like the Commonwealth Boomerang and lost designs like the Grumman Skyrocket. If the Westland Whirlwind had been fitted with Merlin engines instead of those wimpy Peregrines, would the Mosquito have even flown?”
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