'No Highway' by Neville Shute.
A superior novel about an eccentric individual who foretold the first jet airliner crash due to metal fatigue. I believe that Neville Shute actually gave evidence at the lublic enquiry to the early Comet crashes as his story was so prohetic.
Perhaps we whould have a novel about the perils of pilot fatigue???
'Reach for the Sky' by Paul Brickhill.
I was definately inspired to fly by the story of the amazing Gp Capt Douglas Bader who defied everybody to fight combat in Spits and Hurricanse as a double amputee.