Westwind (novel)

Westwind is a 1990 novel written by Ian Rankin, and is one of the author's earliest works. The author has explained on his website that he was not happy with the outcome and unlike other early works by Rankin, it has not been reissued.

Plot summary

The Zephyr computer system monitors the progress of the United Kingdom's only spy satellite. When this system briefly goes offline, the book's main characters Hepton and Dreyfuss (the sole survivor of a space shuttle crash) have the only key to the enigma that must be solved if both men are to stay alive.

Author's comments

Rankin writes on his website that the book was an attempt at a conspiracy-theory novel, set partly in the USA (a country he had never visited) and with a lot of humour. The editor of the time did not like it, and had him make many changes - taking out the humour and the US settings and by the end he felt the book had ceased to be his. Rankin also says he doubts he could read it today.

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Honduran presidential plane

A former Honduran presidential plane is an Israel Aircraft Industries Westwind business jet, seating 7 to 10 passengers, or be reconfigured as a cargo jet. A Bell 412SP is also used as the Honduran presidential helicopter.

History

Since its first purchase of an IAI 1123 Westwind in 1976, the HAF Westwinds have transported the most senior government officials, both civilian and military, to many countries. The airplanes have had 3 color schemes in its history (all white in the 70s, White and Blue in the 80s, and Silver and Blue Metallic currently). The first Westwind was a 1123 model, which was later replaced by an IAI 1124 Westwind. Honduras and Panama (which has a Gulfstream IIB are the only Central American countries with presidential jet aircraft.

In the mid-70's, the Honduras government bought a package of aircraft from Israel, the first lot of 12 Dassault Super Mystères, and 2 IAI Aravas plus an IAI 1123, which had operating limitations flying out of Toncontin International Airport (TGU), on the nation's capital, Tegucigalpa, to foreign destinations such as Washington, DC, due to lack of fuel capacity. The later IAI 1124 model, acquired in the 1980s, had enhanced performance due to more powerful and fuel efficient engines.

Westwind (band)

Westwind is a musical project from the French post-industrial scene, created by Kris G (pseudonym of Christophe Gales). It mixes influences from musics such as Martial industrial, Post-industrial, Dark ambient, Neofolk and Neoclassical music.

Westwind started in 1999 by releasing self-produced and handmade CDR on its own label Black Sun Rising, which was dissolved in 2002 to leave the place to the new label Steelwork Maschine in 2003, that he creates with Serge Usson of the bands Neon Rain and Storm Of Capricorn.

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Novel

A novel is a long narrative, normally in prose, which describes fictional characters and events, usually in the form of a sequential story.

The genre has also been described as possessing "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years". This view sees the novel's origins in Classical Greece and Rome, medieval, early modern romance, and the tradition of the novella. The latter, an Italian word used to describe short stories, supplied the present generic English term in the 18th century. Ian Watt, however, in The Rise of the Novel (1957) suggests that the novel first came into being in the early 18th century,

Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, is frequently cited as the first significant European novelist of the modern era; the first part of Don Quixote was published in 1605.

The romance is a closely related long prose narrative. Walter Scott defined it as "a fictitious narrative in prose or verse; the interest of which turns upon marvellous and uncommon incidents", whereas in the novel "the events are accommodated to the ordinary train of human events and the modern state of society". However, many romances, including the historical romances of Scott,Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, are also frequently called novels, and Scott describes romance as a "kindred term". Romance, as defined here, should not be confused with the genre fiction love romance or romance novel. Other European languages do not distinguish between romance and novel: "a novel is le roman, der Roman, il romanzo."

Moon of Israel (novel)

Moon of Israel is a novel by Rider Haggard, first published in 1918 by John Murray. The novel narrates the events of the Biblical Exodus from Egypt told from the perspective of a scribe named Ana.

Haggard dedicated his novel to Sir Gaston Maspero, a distinguished Egyptologist and director of Cairo Museum.

Adaptation

His novel was the basis of a script by Ladislaus Vajda, for film-director Michael Curtiz in his 1924 Austrian epic known as Die Sklavenkönigin, or "Queen of the Slaves".

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Novel (disambiguation)

A novel is a long prose narrative.

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