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David Beaty



aka Paul Stanton

Arthur David Beaty was a former RAF pilot, novelist and non-fiction writer whose books about flying earned him a worldwide reputation. "" "" Born in Ceylon, Beaty was educated at Kingswood, Bath and Merton College, Oxford, where he edited The Cherwell with Iris Murdoch. He became an RAF pilot during WWII, where he excelled, but gave up a life in the Air Force to write full-time. However, his experiences informed his many novels, thrillers originally written under the pseudonym Paul Stanton. In 1960, Cone of Silence was made into a film starring Peter Cushing and George Sanders, and Alfred Hitchcock bought the rights to Village of Stars, although the film was never made. "" "" In the late 1960s Beaty turned his hand to writing non-fiction: his book about safety and aviation The Human Factor in Aircraft Accidents, caused wide controversy on its publication in 1969, but was later accepted and remains very influential.
 
 
Novels
   The Take Off (1949)
   The Heart of the Storm (1954)
   The Four Winds (1955)
   The Proving Flight (1956)
   Call Me Captain (1959)
   Cone of Silence (1959)
     aka Trouble in the Sky
   Village of Stars (1960) (as by Paul Stanton)
   The Wind Off The Sea (1962)
   The Siren Song (1964)
   The Gun Garden (1965)
   Sword of Honour (1965)
   The Temple Tree (1971)
   Electric Train (1975)
   Excellency (1977)
   The White Sea Bird (1979)
   Wings of the Morning (1982) (with Betty Beaty)
   The Stick (1984)
   The Blood Brothers (1987)
   Eagles (1990)
   The Ghosts of the Eighth Attack (1998)
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