The aircraft was finished in time to be displayed at the 1909 Olympia Aero Exhibition, after which it was taken to the "flying field" established by Noel Pemberton Billing at Fambridge in Essex.
Whereas Regeneration is an anomalous, but not unique, mixture of fact and fiction, The Eye in the Door acknowledges real events, including the campaign against homosexuals being waged that year by right-wing MP Noel Pemberton Billing, but remains consistently within the realm of fiction.
A notorious right wing politician and inventor, Noel Pemberton Billing was publishing that the production was meant to sap British military and spiritual values by introducing indecent ideas (i.e., homosexuality) into the public from Wilde's writings.
Noël Coward | Noel Gallagher | Noel Fielding | Noel Edmonds | Amanda Billing | Noel Pearson | Philip Noel-Baker | Noel Pearson (Australian lawyer) | Noel Malcolm | Noel Clarke | Craig Noel | Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker | Noel Pemberton Billing | Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds (album) | Noel Crombie | Noel | Dream On (Noel Gallagher song) | Tessa Noël | Pemberton | Noel Noel-Buxton, 1st Baron Noel-Buxton | Noel McCalla | Noel King | Noël Godin | Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy | Noel Crichton-Browne | Noel Coward | Noel Counihan | John Pemberton | James Leigh-Pemberton | The Noel Redding Band |
In 1908, he left the railways for his first job in aviation, working as an assistant for Noel Pemberton Billing who was trying to establish a flying ground at South Fambridge in Essex.