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
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
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

In the Likely Event by Rebecca YarrosOn a Flight to Sydney by J.A.  FordeSuch a Rush by Jennifer EcholsFly Bye by C.W. Farnsworth
Hot Pilots
4 books — 2 voters
Harley in the Sky by Akemi Dawn BowmanHornet Flight by Ken FollettCode Name Verity by Elizabeth WeinLeviathan by Scott WesterfeldAirs Above the Ground by Mary  Stewart
Reach for the sky
442 books — 45 voters

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
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


Michael Bassey Johnson
Every idea is in the soul of its owner. No other power can shift it to another soul, that is why we have the telephone, aircraft, etc, each having its unique inventor.
Michael Bassey Johnson

Sneha Subramanian Kanta
The path of Dionysian music in scraps of collage, its materiality, its inadvertent touch, its outward gaze.
Sneha Subramanian Kanta

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