u/GoldenWakeboard

I’m trying to identify a book/audiobook I listened to a number of years ago (around 2012–2015). I borrowed it on audiobook CD.

What I remember (to the best of my ability):

Adventure novel, probably YA

A teenage boy (Bryce I think) and girl, with a romantic connection woven through the story

They discover an old aircraft hidden in a cave near the ocean

The plane is old-style, with fabric-covered wings (wood + cloth), possibly twin-engine

They get the plane working and actually fly it The plane could be from any era (maybe WWII, but not certain)

The audiobook CD cover was dark green/black, with a plane silhouetted flying at night

One thing I remember is that he said when he kissed the girl it felt like peeing on an electric fence.

It is not Hornet Flight by Ken Follett, The Secret of Zoom, or Enid Blyton.

The book seems obscure or out of print and may no longer be in library catalogues.

Any ideas appreciated, this has been driving me mad.

The book was about a person who travelled time and one time he travelled into the future and what had happened is the rich people had forced the poor people to work in factories underground and the rich people lived above ground. Over time, because they did no work, the rich people got very soft and became almost genderless and very naive and dumb. The underground people evolved into monkeys with really good eyesight from working on the dark and pretty much farmed the above ground people from food. Above ground where the people are farmed is a kind of dystopia by day, but the monkeys come out to eat the rich people at night.

When the main character travels to this time period, the monkeys break his time machine and he is stuck there. He somehow gets the missing parts back because he went out in the dark with a flame torch which blinds the monkeys.

The soft people are terrified of the nighttime because they is when the monkeys come out and eat them.

Then he goes very far into the future to the end of the earth and all that is left is big crabs, then the earth gets sucked up by the sun.