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
Ferry Pilot by Kerry McCauleyGustave Whitehead by Susan BrinchmanThe Heathrow Affair by Lance MorcanCross Winds by Steven  MyersUne Autre Histoire de l'Aviation by Toni Giacoia
Aerospace
11 books — 9 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

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
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

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
Alive by Piers Paul ReadMiracle in the Andes by Nando ParradoFlight 232 by Laurence GonzalesThe Mystery of Flight 427 by Bill AdairLost in Shangri-la by Mitchell Zuckoff
Planes - accidents
79 books — 31 voters


J.G. Ballard
After a few minutes Jim was forced to admit that he could recognize none of the constellations. Like everything else since the war, the sky was in a state of change. For all their movements, the Japanese aircraft were its only fixed points, a second zodiac above the broken land.
J.G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun

Steven Magee
The Boeing 737 Max has become a classic example of the failure of deregulation.
Steven Magee

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