As a teenager, Dennington read all Nevil Shute’s books, including Slide Rule, which tells of Shute’s days as an aeronautical engineer on the great behemoth R100 at Howden in Yorkshire and of his nights as an aspiring novelist. Dennington was fascinated by both these aspects of Shute’s life. Nevil Shute inspired Dennington to write and to fly. The writing was put on hold while he went off around the world helping to manage various construction projects and raising a family. He picked up flying in the Bahamas, scaring himself silly, and sailing in Bermuda. This was all good experience for writing about battling the elements, navigation and building large structures. Some years later, his interest in airships was rekindled. It was now time to pursue his dream—writing. Dennington had done extensive research on the Imperial British Airship Program and attended screenplay writing workshops at Bethesda Writer’s Center. He wound up writing two screenplays which had a modicum of success. The experts in the business told him the stories were good and that he just had to write them as novels. So, it was back to the Writer’s Center to learn the craft of novel writing. Five years later, with his daughter working as his editor and muse, two books were completed.