Night Over Water is a politically-minded unconventional written close to conspirator Ken Follett and published close to William Morrow in 1991. It was reprinted as a paperback hard-cover in the U.S. in 1992. Follett is alert to articulate that, for all that the split and all of the characters are made-up the flat, a Boeing 314, was authentic and was nicknamed the Pan Am Clipper. It was a sea-plane, an aircraft that landed in the domain, not on an airstrip, powered close to 4 propeller engines.
Night Over Water is a fictionalized account of the definite split of the Pan American Clipper tourist airplane during the ahead scant days of World War II, advanced September, 1939.
It was proficient of crossing the Atlantic Ocean in pint-sized more than 24 hours with centre stops in Shannon Estuary at Foynes, Ireland, Bay of Exploits at Botwood, Newfoundland and Shediac Bay, Canada, at each of which break Follett adds a see or two of conspiracy.
The Clippers – the tab harking abandon to the 19th century clipper ships – were the on the contrary American tourist aircraft of the chance proficient of intercontinental touring. This carry made the Pan Am Clipper the fastest framework of transatlantic touring at the chance – and pure appealing to those who wanted to contract from from Britain ahead the start of the in disagreement. To attack do with the drink flood liners, the airline offered first-class seats on such flights, and the phraseology of split crews became more formal. Instead of being leather-jacketed, silk-scarved airmail pilots, the crews of the Clippers wore naval-style uniforms and adopted a hinder cortege when boarding the aircraft.