Originally Posted by AusFlygal
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My favourite non-military novel is a book called "Propellerhead" written by an English pilot name Antony Woodward and is an autobiography.
It's wonderfully written with pleny of humour and really captures all the joys and frustrations of learning to fly.
Highly recommended.
Couldn't agree more! Just loved that one, and one of the few books I've read more than once; it's a 'keeper'. Reminiscent of some of my early flying.
I doubt you will find this anywhere, but my Dad has a copy of "History of Aeronautics" printed in 1913, foreword by Orville Wright. Fascinating book of all the latest stuff in flying, including a photograph of a Curtiss biplane setting a new altitude record, at 300+ feet! Dad rescued it from the Defence library as it was about to be thrown out!! (That's the book, not the Curtiss)