Which country was a British-born aviator for whom a movie starring Trevor Eve was based on fly as one of the first bush pilots in?
Heat of the Sun Heat of the Sun is a police drama TV serial, set in 1930s Kenya. It was a joint production by Carlton Productions and WGBH Boston; it aired in 1998 in the United Kingdom on ITV and in 1999 on "Mystery!" on PBS in the United States. It starred Trevor Eve as Superintendent Albert Tyburn, a Scotland Yard criminal investigations officer working in Nairobi and Susannah Harker as a romantic interest and aviator modelled on Beryl Markham. The series reveals the underside of the expatriate community in Kenya, exploring murders against issue of race and class, drug use, and sexuality.
Frank Clarke (pilot) Frank Clarke (29 December 1898 - 12 June 1948) was a Hollywood stunt pilot, actor, and military officer. His most prominent role was as Leutnant von Bruen (and double for von Richthofen in combat scenes) in the 1930 production "Hell's Angels", but he flew for the camera and performed stunts in more than a dozen films in the 1930s and '40s. He was killed in an airplane crash near Isabella, California, in 1948.