Last plane out Author:John Ball This is the gripping, compelling saga of men and their machines and their lonely women. Men who have only one goal--get up in the sky in anything that flies! — The Captain--a man not to be grounded, determined to fly the last plane out of the war. — Jennings--survivor of a terrifying crash, who kept his eyes turned to the skies all his life; — The... more » copilots, navigators, technicians, ground crews--and the two young women who tie together the threads of their lives.