Good aircraft books- what are you reading?
Currently reading 'Command Instrument Rating'.
Highly recommend 'Air Distaster: Volume 4: The Propeller Era by Macarthur Job.
Really interesting even if you're not into prop era airliners (I wasn't).
Highly recommend 'Air Distaster: Volume 4: The Propeller Era by Macarthur Job.
Really interesting even if you're not into prop era airliners (I wasn't).
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Snake Pilot:Randy Zahn- AH1G in Vietnam
Pathfinders: Don Bennett
Apache: Ed Macy
Wings on My Sleeve: Eric 'Winkle' Brown- flown more types than any other pilot- also most carrier landings- great read about a remarkable man
Pathfinders: Don Bennett
Apache: Ed Macy
Wings on My Sleeve: Eric 'Winkle' Brown- flown more types than any other pilot- also most carrier landings- great read about a remarkable man
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If you want a good read on an alternative flight training method, then download the following 4 books by ex-Aussie, now living in NZ, instructor Noel Kruse on FLY BETTER......
If you're into biographies, and I am....
Ian Mackersey - a NZ author wrote a couple of warts and all on The Wright Brothers and Jean Batten.
First Man, to my knowledge the only official biography on Neil Armstrong by James Hansen is an excellent antidote to the Yeager book.
Generally, I get lost in any well written aviation historical and just wish I was born 30 years earlier.......
Ian Mackersey - a NZ author wrote a couple of warts and all on The Wright Brothers and Jean Batten.
First Man, to my knowledge the only official biography on Neil Armstrong by James Hansen is an excellent antidote to the Yeager book.
Generally, I get lost in any well written aviation historical and just wish I was born 30 years earlier.......
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Can't believe that only one person has mentioned The Flying Doctor by Clyde Fenton - hands down the best book I've ever read..
Also no one has mentioned Tall Tales of the South Pacific, written by a well known PPRuNe identity and also a great read.
Perhaps if more kids read books like these there wouldnt be such a rush to skip GA and join an airline cadetship aged 18??
Also no one has mentioned Tall Tales of the South Pacific, written by a well known PPRuNe identity and also a great read.
Perhaps if more kids read books like these there wouldnt be such a rush to skip GA and join an airline cadetship aged 18??
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Winged Victory.
V M Yeates.
Excellent, excellent, excellent;
Winged Victory - A Book By V.M. Yeates, An RFC Fighter Pilot
V M Yeates.
Excellent, excellent, excellent;
Winged Victory - A Book By V.M. Yeates, An RFC Fighter Pilot
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I'd just like to say the Tiger is the aeroplane I have had the most amount of fun in thus far out of all the aerobatic (if you can call it that
) types I have flown.
I am a bit bias, but have read (about half a million times) Aerobatics - Neil Williams.
I am reading Duane Cole's Roll Around a Point and Conquest of Lines and Symmetry at the moment. Sigh for a Merlin by Alex Henshaw was a brilliant read, as was The Spifire: A test pilots story by Jeffrey Quill.
The most interesting read I have had to date in relation to Aviation, is unquestionably Charles Kingsford Smith and those magnificent men by Peter Fitzsimons. If you enjoy reading about Aviation history, this is the book. So many prominant personalities are mentioned as Smithy crossed paths with so many of them.
I have copies of all the above, but one I have read but don't own myself is Keith Park's biography, would really like to track down a copy of this one.
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) types I have flown. I am a bit bias, but have read (about half a million times) Aerobatics - Neil Williams.
I am reading Duane Cole's Roll Around a Point and Conquest of Lines and Symmetry at the moment. Sigh for a Merlin by Alex Henshaw was a brilliant read, as was The Spifire: A test pilots story by Jeffrey Quill.
The most interesting read I have had to date in relation to Aviation, is unquestionably Charles Kingsford Smith and those magnificent men by Peter Fitzsimons. If you enjoy reading about Aviation history, this is the book. So many prominant personalities are mentioned as Smithy crossed paths with so many of them.
I have copies of all the above, but one I have read but don't own myself is Keith Park's biography, would really like to track down a copy of this one.
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Ewan Wilson Dogfight. Just jokes, luckliy i bought some toilet paper. Chronolgy of what can go wrong will go wrong. Loved the piece where he did an Eagle Air charter with a mechanic only to get lost 
Loved the piece where he did an Eagle Air charter with a mechanic only to get lost
"Nanette" by Edwards Park. A P39 fighter pilot's story with his 'Cobra in NG.
Makes you want to fly one. I want one !.. I did find one, but some bum had blown it up post war. Bugger.
An expaned version from QUP.. "Angels Twenty"
"Song of the Sky" by Guy Murchie. Roamed the world as a Navigator on C54s.
" Flight of the Mew Gull" Alex Henshaw. Got to be the most amazing long distance record flight..and nav ex in the history of aviation, Cape Town and back.
A top precursor to "Sigh for a Merlin". He was "Mr Spitfire" extrordinaire, too
Makes you want to fly one. I want one !.. I did find one, but some bum had blown it up post war. Bugger.
An expaned version from QUP.. "Angels Twenty"
"Song of the Sky" by Guy Murchie. Roamed the world as a Navigator on C54s.
" Flight of the Mew Gull" Alex Henshaw. Got to be the most amazing long distance record flight..and nav ex in the history of aviation, Cape Town and back.
A top precursor to "Sigh for a Merlin". He was "Mr Spitfire" extrordinaire, too
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what are you reading?
B-350 POH, I just can't get into the story...
1. Forever Flying by Bob Hoover
2. Gatty Prince of Navigators
3. Bennett and the Pathfinders
4. Sigh for a Merlin
5. The Flight of the Mew Gull
6. Corsairville
7. Bushies A history of Queensland's Airline.
8. The Big Show Pierre Closterman
9. Airfix Celebrating 50 Years of the Greatest Plastic kits
10. The Dambusters by Guy Gibson
11. Phoenix Squadron
12. Vulcan 607
13. The Forgotten Giant of Australian Aviation
14. This Flying Business
2. Gatty Prince of Navigators
3. Bennett and the Pathfinders
4. Sigh for a Merlin
5. The Flight of the Mew Gull
6. Corsairville
7. Bushies A history of Queensland's Airline.
8. The Big Show Pierre Closterman
9. Airfix Celebrating 50 Years of the Greatest Plastic kits
10. The Dambusters by Guy Gibson
11. Phoenix Squadron
12. Vulcan 607
13. The Forgotten Giant of Australian Aviation
14. This Flying Business
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Stationair8,
Do you mean 'The Dambusters' by Paul Brickhill
or
'Enemy Coast Ahead' by Guy Gibson?
Both good reads.
10. The Dambusters by Guy Gibson
or
'Enemy Coast Ahead' by Guy Gibson?
Both good reads.
Hard Landing.
A brilliant book on the history of why Deregulation was introduced in the USA and its disastrous initial consequences.
The book also gives an interesting introduction on the setup of airlines and how they came to be.
Highly recommended.
Others include:
* I flew for the Fuhrer by Heinz Knoke
* The First Jet Pilot by Lutz Warsitz
* Herman Goring Fighter Ace by Peter Kilduff
* The 49ers - The True Story by John Warham
b.
A brilliant book on the history of why Deregulation was introduced in the USA and its disastrous initial consequences.
The book also gives an interesting introduction on the setup of airlines and how they came to be.
Highly recommended.
Others include:
* I flew for the Fuhrer by Heinz Knoke
* The First Jet Pilot by Lutz Warsitz
* Herman Goring Fighter Ace by Peter Kilduff
* The 49ers - The True Story by John Warham
b.
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