best flying books?

I am making a short list of books about flying (including combat
flying). So far I've got When Thunder Rolled, Fate Is The Hunter, and
Flight of Passage.

What are your favorites?

Blue skies! -- Dan Ford

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I am making a short list of books about flying (including combat
flying). So far I've got When Thunder Rolled, Fate Is The Hunter, and
Flight of Passage.

What are your favorites?

Blue skies! -- Dan Ford

"God Is My Co Pilot", but you probably already have it listed :-)
Dudley Henriques

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I am making a short list of books about flying (including combat
flying). So far I've got When Thunder Rolled, Fate Is The Hunter, and
Flight of Passage.

What are your favorites?


_Chickenhawk_ by Robert Mason



_Samurai_ by Saburo Sakai with Martin Caidin



_Thunderbolt_ by Robert S. Johnson



_Wind,Sand and Stars_ by Antoine de Saint-Exupery


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Dan
C172RG at BFM

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I am making a short list of books about flying (including combat
flying). So far I've got When Thunder Rolled, Fate Is The Hunter, and
Flight of Passage.

What are your favorites?

Blue skies! -- Dan Ford

Richard Bach's GA books - A Gift of Wings, Biplane, and Nothing By Chance.

KB

Cubdriver usenet AT danford DOT net wrote in
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I am making a short list of books about flying (including combat
flying). So far I've got When Thunder Rolled, Fate Is The Hunter, and
Flight of Passage.

What are your favorites?


X-15, the edge of Space by Milt Thompson
Sagittarius Rising
I could never be so lucky again, Jimmy Doolittle.
In the Company of Eagles, Ernie Gann. Hell, anything by Ernie Gann
Night Flight, Antoine St Exupery, again, anything by St Ex.
Most of Richard Bach's stuff too.

And I was a teenage wannabe, by MxSmanic


Bertie

On May 5, 4:58 pm, "Dan Luke" wrote:

_Wind,Sand and Stars_ by Antoine de Saint-Exupery


That's a favorite; it's also included in "A trilogy: Airman's
Odyssey" , all by A. dS.E.

For history, there's
Boyd, by Robert Coram (about John Boyd, a distinctively different
military pilot. Excellent commentary on management style!)

The Bishop's Boys, by Crouch, about the Wrights. Solid with lots
of fascinating detail.

Richard Bach and Jeffrey Quill's 'Spitfire'

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Sincerely,
Quilljar

Nevil Shute
No Highway
Round the bend
Slide rule
Robert Buck
weather flying
Langewiesche (father)
srick and rudder
Langewiesche (son)
inside the sky
All time best
fate is the hunter

"Kyle Boatright" wrote in message
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"Cubdriver" usenet AT danford DOT net wrote in message
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I am making a short list of books about flying (including combat
flying). So far I've got When Thunder Rolled, Fate Is The Hunter, and
Flight of Passage.

What are your favorites?

Blue skies! -- Dan Ford

Richard Bach's GA books - A Gift of Wings, Biplane, and Nothing By Chance.

KB

Forsyth's The Shepherd. It's a novella and out of print but
fabulous reading (it was a requirement for my instrument
training).

The original Haley "Airport" (and even Runway 08)

Any of Robin White's books (Flight from Winter's Shadow, Sword
of Orion) (By the way, not aviation related, but very good and
NON FICTION: Hostile Waters, not to be confused with the
schlocky HBO movie of roughly the same subject).

One that was influential on me, but darned if I remember the
name of the author now was a couple of books by a lawyer you
learned to fly in a Cessna 140. Dated even when I read them,
they were probably written in the '50's, but lots of story
about him learning to fly, etc...

While I found Crichton's Airframe to be entertaining, the
numerous defects in the aviation info in it were somewhat
annoying.

On May 6, 10:32 am, Ron Natalie wrote:
One that was influential on me, but darned if I remember the
name of the author now was a couple of books by a lawyer you
learned to fly in a Cessna 140. Dated even when I read them,
they were probably written in the '50's, but lots of story
about him learning to fly, etc...

Frank Kingston Smith: "Weekend Pilot" & "Weekend Wings". I like his
books as well.

Hai Longworth