Recommended Books
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! |
Read The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff - always helpful ;).
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'Stick & Rudder'. Should be required read for every pilot. Air France ones in particular.
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This thread:
http://www.pprune.org/flight-testing...ew-thread.html should give you some good books to consider. |
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.
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Brilliant, thanks for the replies.
And thanks pilot DAR for the link! |
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. |
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 |
Hey WhiskeyKiloWanderer - have you been looking at my bookshelf (well, one of them)...
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Hoover's "Forever Flying" is excellent, as is Doolittle's autobiography.
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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. |
'How Airliners Fly' by Julien Evans (paperback and Kindle).
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Bach, R Talking To The Ground SD |
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