I read JLS many years ago, and re-read it after learning to fly. Nah, still don't like it - trite rubbish if you ask me, though I hope I haven't upset anyone by saying that. A Gift of Wings and Biplane are very different though - definitely some of my favourite books.
Tricky Woo, thanks for sticking up for Tiger Moth, though perhaps you were just a wee bit patronising. Stick around Tiger, you have as much right to be here as onyone else. Ignore the ageist comments; one thing is guaranteed - you will get older! And ignore people who flame you; it's probably not worth retaliating, though even we've all got annoyed and done so occasionally (like when someone on wannabes said I was talking crap but didn't say why!). You've started some good threads, and some not so good; made some good comments, and some not so good. Just like the rest of us in fact.