SHE'LL NEVER GET OFF THE GROUND

by Robert J. Serling ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 8, 1970

The feminine personal pronoun applies to Dudney Devlin who is the first girl to attempt to fly the not so friendly skies of Trans Coastal where most of the personnel are determined to see that she doesn't make it as a pilot. For more than halt' of this book Mr. Serling is so instructive (once again) that you're likely to deplane since you follow Dudney through all the training periods and learn all about the vital organs of the 737, fuel transfer by valve sequence. However she does win her wings and she does fall in love, with a widowed co-pilot, and at the end when she is flying with him and he is shot, she permits her ""emotionalism"" to govern her reactions and she brings the plane down, violating every rule. . . . Serling's no Ernest Gann or David Beaty, not an optimum to begin with, so that this is just commercial airline commercial fiction.

Pub Date: Jan. 8, 1970

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Doubleday

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1, 1970

Categories: FICTION