Airline

In 1946, Flight Sgt. Russell tries to stay in the RAF as a pilot. A former mentor falls under suspicion of massive illegalities and needs a favor, lea...

Demobilized from the Air Force, Jack Ruskin hustles to start his own private air service with a few other men.

Ruskin Air Service's first cargo run is a failure when the cargo of eggs is confiscated. Debts and interest on the aircraft loan pile up. A load of tr...

February. Ruskin Air Services is grounded: locked in the icy grip of winter, Enter Ernie Cade, with a proposition the men find hard to refuse, Had the...

March 1947, Ruskin is broke. His plane is badly damaged and Cade is putting the screws on. Hardly the time to expand, one would think, But Ruskin's de...

Spring 1947, With the forces of bureaucracy massing against him in England, Ruskin finds himself in Malta, with no fuel, no cooperation and no way out...

Stripped of his pilot's licence and no airline to run, Ruskin, undaunted, embarks on a new 'money earner' - and that's where he comes unstuck: militar...

Spring 1948. Dark clouds are gathering over Jennie and Jack's wedding plans, The airline is in deep -and deadly - trouble. Ruskin must make a decision...

Autumn 1948. With high financial rewards to be made from the Berlin airlift, independent operator Ruskin has nothing to operate. He has lost his licen...