Beaty, David

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...