She'll Never Get Off the Ground Author:Robert J. Serling Robert J. Serling, author of "The President's Plane is Missing", has written a great new novel about the big planes and the men who fly them. Only this time, one of the "men" is a lovely girl... — Her name was Dudney Devlin.. daughter of a great pilot.. brought up in a bush airline in Alaska.. learning to fly by the seat of her nicely filled pant... more »s.. determined to have a go at the biggest planes aloft.. and learning what it cost in pride, and hard work, and love, and climactic nerve-shattering decisions when the lives of a hundred passengers rode on whether she was a pilot or a woman first.« less