Recommended Books

[fl2006]

Hi,

I tried searching but couldn't find much.
Can anyone recommend any flying books that are good for General reading but also have good information and bits of flying wisdom in them? Can gain some knowledge while reading.

Thanks in advance!

[ChickenHouse]

Read The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff - always helpful .

[Shaggy Sheep Driver]

'Stick & Rudder'. Should be required read for every pilot. Air France ones in particular.

[Pilot DAR]

This thread:

http://www.pprune.org/flight-testing...ew-thread.html

should give you some good books to consider.

[mary meagher]

Fate is the Hunter, Ernest Gahn (sp?) And also Wings on my Sleeve, by Eric (Winkle) Brown. Both top quality, readable. not to be missed.

[fl2006]

Brilliant, thanks for the replies.
And thanks pilot DAR for the link!

[thing]

I'll second 'Fate is the Hunter' by Ernest K. GANN. The best book I've ever read about flying.

'A Gift of Wings' by Richard Bach is up there as well.

[Whiskey Kilo Wanderer]

From another Forum

Cheating a bit with a Copy / Paste:

Andersen, B To Fly And Fight
Anon, (Ed. By Springs, E War Birds – diary of an unknown aviator
Ashton, J Norman Only Birds & Fools: Flight Engineer, Avro Lancaster, WW1
Bach, R A Gift Of Wings
Bach, R Biplane
Bach, R Talking To The Ground
Bader, D Reach For The Sky
Barrie, A Fly For 3 Lives *
Barrie, A Jonathan Kane Climbs High *
Barrie, A Jungle Run *
Barrie, A Let Them All Starve *
Barrie, A Operation Midnight *
Bashow, D Terror In The Starboard Seat
Bates, H How Sleep The Brave (Flying Officer X)
Baxter, G Bax Seat
Beamont, R Flying To The Limit
Bedard, D Blue Confessions
Blackman, T Vulcan Test Pilot
Bramson, A The Funny Side Of Flying
Brett, M A Sunday Flyer
Brett, M Flying The Oregon Trail
Broughton, J Thud Ridge
Brown, E Wings On My Sleeve
Buck, R Flight Of Passage
Burrows, W E By Any Means Necessary
Butler, C A Flight To A Lady
Charlwood,D No Moon Tonight
Chichester, F The Lonely Sea And The Sky
Clapshaw, G A Likely Story
Clapshaw, G And That’s Another Story
Clostermann, P Le Grand Cirque (The Big Show)
Cobb, J Woman Into Space
Collins, M Carrying The Fire
Combs, H Kill Devil Hill
Coonts, S Cannibal Queen
Cooper, E W Rising Above It
Corrick, M The Navigation Log
Cowie, et al Out Of The Blue
Crossfield, S Always Another Dawn
Cull, B Wings Over Suez
Curtis, L Her Biography
Curtis, L The Forgotten Pilots
Cusak, J B They Hosed Them Out
Dahl, R Going Solo
Dahl, R Over To You
Deighton, L Bomber
Deighton, L Fighter – The True Story Of The Battle Of Britain
Deighton, L Goodbye Mickey Mouse
Dodwell, C Travels With Pegasus
Donnet, M Flight To Freedom
Duke, N Test Pilot
Evans, T P Squadron Leader Tommy Broom DFC
Farley, J A View From The Hover
Foreman & Harvey ME 262 Combat Diary
Forrester, L Fly For Your Life
Forsyth, F The Shepherd
Gallico, P The Hurricane Story
Gann, E Ernest Gann’s Flying Circus
Gann, E Fate Is The Hunter
Gann, E In The Company Of Eagles
Garnett, D The Grasshoppers Come
Garnett, R A Rabbit In The Air
Gibson, G Enemy Coast Ahead
Glancey, J Spitfire, The Biography
Grace, D Crash Pilot
Hammond, M Immediate Response
Harris, T Black Sunday
Hart, P Aces Falling: War Above The Trenches
Harvey, J D The Tumbling Mirth & Laughter-Silvered Wings
Havilland, G de Sky Fever
Haynsworth & Toomey Amelia Earhart’s Daughters
Henshaw, A Sigh For A Merlin
Henshaw, A The Flight Of The Mew Gull
Hillary, R The Last Enemy
Hooper, J A Hundred Feet Over Hell
Hoover, R Forever Flying
Humphries, H Living With Heroes: the Dambusters
Isaacs, J An Aeroplane Affair
Iveson, T Lancaster: The Biography
Jack, D Me So Far
Jack, D Hitler Versus Me (Bandy)
Jack, D It’s Me Again (Bandy)
Jack, D Me Bandy, You Cissie
Jack, D Me Too
Jack, D That’s Me In The middle
Jack, D Three Cheers For Me
Jackson, P Tiger In The Sky
Jefferson, A Red Tail Captured
Johns, W E Biggles (various)
Kimbell, A Think Like A Bird
Kingsford Smith, C My Flying Life
Kisor, H Flight Of The ‘Gin Fizz’
Knocke, H I Flew For The Fuhrer
Kranz, G Failure Is not An Option
Langewiesche, W America From The Air: An Aviator’s Story
Langewiesche, W Inside The Sky
Large, P S Skying
Lawson, P Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Lecomber, B Deadweight
Lecomber, B Talkdown
Lecomber, B Turn Killer
Lee, A G No Parachute
Levine, J On A Wing And A Prayer
Lewis, C Saggitarius Rising
Lindbergh, A M Listen The Wind
Lindbergh, A M North To The Orient
Macintyre, B Operation Mincemeat
Mackersey, I Smithy: the Life Of Charles Kingsford Smith
Macy, E Apache
Markham, B West With The Night
Mason, P Pablo’s Travels
Mason, R Chickenhawk
McCudden, J Flying Fury
McIndoe, A Red Sky At Night: The Story Of Jo Capka
McIntosh, D Mosquito Intruder
McVicar, D A Change Of Wings
McVicar, D Ferry Command
McVicar, D More Than A Pilot
McVicar, D Mosquito Racer
McVicar, D North Atlantic Cat
Miller, R Sugarbird Lady
Mitchell, G Schooldays To Spitfire
Moffart, J I Sank The Bismarck
Moore, J The Wrong Stuff
Morgan, D Hostile Skies
Olds, R Fighter Pilot
Orchard, A Joint Force Harrier
Parham, J Flying For Fun
Peden, M A Thousand Shall Fall
Penrose, H Airymouse
Penrose, H Cloud Cuckooland
Peters & Nicol Tornado Down
Piggott, D Delta Papa, A Life Of Flying
Prest, R F4 Phantom: A Pilot’s Story
Purchase, B Around The World At 90 kts
Quill, J Spitfire: A Test Pilot’s Story
Radcliffe, R Beneath Another Sun
Radcliffe, R Under An English Heaven
Ramo, J C No Visible Horizon
Rawnsley & Wright Night Fighter
Reitsche, H The Sky My Kingdom
Richardson, N No Escape Zone
Richey, P Fighter Pilot
Robbins, C Air America
Robinson, D Goshawk Squadron
Robinson, D Piece Of Cake
Robinson, D War Story
Robinson, R Tester Zero One
Rossiter, S The Immortal Beaver
Rowell, B C Flying South
Rychetnik, J Alaska’s Sky Follies
Sanders, J Of Wind and Water
Sawyer, R Notes From A Small Mind
Schultz, A Janey: A Little Plane In A Big War
Scott, S I Must Fly; On Top Of The World
Shores, C The Air War – Yugoslavia & Greece
Shul, B Sled Driver
Shute, N Marazan
Shute, N No Highway
Shute, N Round The Bend
Shute, N Slide Rule
Smith, V Open Cockpit Over Africa
Spooner, T Warburton’s War
St Exupery, A de Flight To Arras
St Exupery, A de Night Mail
Starks, R You Want To Build & Fly a WHAT?
Steenson, E Flight Plan PNG
Stewart, S Air Disasters
Stewart, S Emergency
Stiles, B Serenade To The Big Bird
Taylor, G The Sky Beyond
Tripp, M Faith Is A Windsock
Tripp, M The Eighth Passenger
Urmaston, J Birds And Fools Fly
Various Aircrew Memories
Various Slipping The Surly Bonds
Verity, H We Landed By Moonlight
Vigors, T Life’s Too Short To Cry
Villard, H Contact! The Story Of The Early Birds
Walker, D B Spreading My Wings
Walker, M Powder Puff Derby
Wallace, G Cockpit Follies
Wallace, G Derry Air
Wallace, G Fly Yellow Side Up
Wallace, G If Clouds Could Talk
Wallace, G Pie In The Sky
Wallace, G The Flying Circus
Wallace, G The Smile High Club
Wallace, G You’d Fly Laughing Too
Ward, S Sea Harrier Over The Falklands
Waterton, B The Quick And The Dead
Wellum, G First Light
White, R Phoenix Squadron
White, R Vulcan 607
Whitlock, A Behind The Cockpit Door
Whittell, G Spitfire Women
Wilcox, R Scream Of Eagles
Williams, N Airborne
Wills, P On Being A Bird
Wolfe, T The Right Stuff
Woodward, A Propellerhead
Wrigley, S You Fly Like A Woman
Yeates, V Winged Victory

[Fitter2]

Hey WhiskeyKiloWanderer - have you been looking at my bookshelf (well, one of them)...

[Lazerdog]

Hoover's "Forever Flying" is excellent, as is Doolittle's autobiography.

[BroomstickPilot]

Bader

Whiskey kilo Wanderer's excellent list gives the authorship of 'Reach for the Sky' as D Bader. In fact, if I recall correctly, it was written by Paul Brickhill.

A second biography of this amazing man, entitled 'Flying Colours' (not to be confused with C. S. Forrester's Hornblower book) by Laddie Lucas was written in about 1980.

Another biography, entitled 'Douglas Bader' was written by John Frayn Turner, who also wrote 'The Bader Wing'.

Another book (author unknown to me) called 'Bader's Last Flight'

There have been numerous other books both by Bader and about Bader listed on the web.

Regards,

BP.

[Discorde]

'How Airliners Fly' by Julien Evans (paperback and Kindle).

[Saab Dastard]

Bach, R Talking To The Ground

Stranger to the Ground, surely? Although Talking To The Ground does have a certain Bachian ring to it...

SD