So I had heard Alan Maitland's reading but had never read the story. Until now- and I'm glad I read it in print. I think Fireside Al's reading is edited somewhat and reading the unabridged story was much more intense and rewarding. A different sort of Christmas story but I recommend. I was first introduced to this story by Fireside Al from the CBC (although I'm not Canadian my upstate NY radio station carried 'As It Happens' which I loved!). Who doesn't love having a story read to them? And this reading is special. A treat for Christmas Eve. As it Happens' 50th anniversary edition". CBC Radio. CBC Radio One. 16 November 2018 . Retrieved 17 November 2018. Audio at about 32:30. A. Bowdoin Van Riper (2004). Imagining flight: aviation and popular culture. Texas A&M University Press. pp.125–26. ISBN 978-1-58544-300-0.

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It is a beautifully written novella.The prose is elegant and there is sustained tension .Forsyth would later turn to writing political thrillers,but for me,this is his best book. It's 1957 & a 20 y/o RAF pilot stationed in Germany wants to fly home to England for Christmas in his Vampire jet fighter of the day. It's a beautiful night full of stars but about 20 minutes into his flight things go terribly wrong with his instruments necessary to navigate and to add to his dilemma, his radio is out. Trying not to panic, he recalls his training for emergencies and begins to put them in place. Thoughts of death begin to creep in as he uses up fuel with no help in sight.

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Oh dear.... Whilst Travolta is an aviation enthusiast (so can't be all bad ) he's all wrong for that role. If anything, his age should preclude him from that role. The son of a furrier, he was born in Ashford, Kent, educated at Tonbridge School and later attended the University of Granada. He became one of the youngest pilots in the Royal Air Force at 19, where he served on National Service from 1956 to 1958. Becoming a journalist, he joined Reuters in 1961 and later the BBC in 1965, where he served as an assistant diplomatic correspondent. From July to September 1967, he served as a correspondent covering the Nigerian Civil War between the region of Biafra and Nigeria. He left the BBC in 1968 after controversy arose over his alleged bias towards the Biafran cause and accusations that he falsified segments of his reports. Returning to Biafra as a freelance reporter, Forsyth wrote his first book, The Biafra Story in 1969.

The pilot did two turns of the triangle manoeuvre and waited. Nothing happened. Nobody came. Distraught at this point, all sorts of things go through his mind. Forsyth creates a gripping tale with an unembroidered, absolutely convincing prose style that will likely have you finishing it in one sitting. A former pilot himself, Forsyth's aviation sequences are completely realistic and never overshadow the human story but become a vital part of it. Found this classic short-story by coincidence on a bookshelf in a hotel in Puerto Rico, Gran Canaria, while waiting for our taxi to the airport. He encounters a World War II era De Havilland Mosquito fighter-bomber and recalls that the meteorological squadron used the last of the Mosquitoes to prepare weather forecasts. The Mosquito’s pilot used hand signals to give the Vampire’s pilot flight commands. At one point the Vampire’s pilot sees the nose of the Mosquito, which had the letters JK painted on it.