Aircraft

An aircraft is a machine that is able to fly by gaining support from the air. It counters the force of gravity by using either static lift or by using the dynamic lift of an airfoil, or in a few cases the downward thrust from jet engines. Common examples of aircraft include airplanes, helicopters, airships (including blimps), gliders, and hot air balloons.

Many books with this tag will be non-fiction about aircraft types and their history. Besides nonfiction books related to crafts and hobbies, there will also be fiction where the main setting is on an aircraft.

Airframe
Sole Survivor
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
American Aircraft of World War II
Yeager: An Autobiography
Total Control
The Encyclopedia of Aircraft of WWII
The Complete Book of Fighters: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Every Fighter Aircraft Built and Flown
The Big Show: The Classic Account of WWII Aerial Combat (Pierre Clostermann's Air War Collection Book 1)
Warthog: Flying the A-10 in the Gulf War
Mustang at War
The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Military Aircraft: 1914 to the Present
A Handbook Of Fighter Aircraft
Flyboys: A True Story of Courage
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard BachCoffee, Tea or Me? The Uninhibited Memoirs of Two Airline Ste... by Trudy BakerMedevac by Declan DalyThe Flying Book by David BlatnerWhen I Fell From the Sky by Juliane Koepcke
Flight Books
16 books — 10 voters

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee ShetterlyKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannBorn a Crime by Trevor NoahMarch by John             LewisEinstein by Walter Isaacson
Non-Fiction read in 2017
476 books — 83 voters
The Fabulous Flying Machines of Alberto Santos-Dumont by Victoria GriffithPlanes by Byron BartonThe Boy and the Airplane by Mark PettI Love Planes! by Philemon SturgesNight Flight by Robert Burleigh
Picture Books About Airplanes
81 books — 16 voters

Ferry Pilot by Kerry McCauleyThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryCatch-22 by Joseph HellerLost Horizon by James HiltonAir, Volume 1 by G. Willow Wilson
Aircraft And Air Travel In Books
85 books — 20 voters
Blood River by Tim ButcherThe Lost City of Z by David GrannSavage Harvest by Carl HoffmanIf I Can't Have You by Gregg OlsenFinding Everett Ruess by David  Roberts
What happened to them?
55 books — 46 voters


Stephen Hunter
You feel like you're the king of creation in an A-10. You're up front and the plane itself--wings, engines, rudders--is way back. You sit at the end of the long snout in a fishbowl wide and bright to the world and the only thing in your head-up display is a little rubbery smudge of nose. It's really just you, slung out there. That's why pilots like Leo Pell loved the ship; you really fly her, you're really airborne, on the wind. It's World War II stuff, Jugs and Bostons lowlevel over the hedgero ...more
Stephen Hunter, The Day Before Midnight

Craig Ferguson
I do love America. And LA is a very short commute to America its like half an hour on the plane.
craig ferguson

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