"What the authorities were concealing, was the 'fact' that the earth was flat". When he discovered Parallax's Zetetic Astronomy he was an instant convert. Shenton could not understand why someone had not previously thought of this idea until he discovered, in the reading room of the British Museum at Bloomsbury that Archbishop Stevens, a friend of Lady Blount, the founder of the Universal Zetetic Society, had suggested an aircraft design similar to his own. He was the son of an army sergeant major, born in Great Yarmouth, and by the 1920s claimed to have invented an airship that would rise into the atmosphere and remain stationary until the Earth spun westwards at 1,000 km/h (620 mph) to the desired destination at the same latitude. Samuel Shenton was a sign writer, who lived with his wife Lillian in a ginger-brick terrace in suburban Dover.
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