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
The Encyclopedia of Aircraft of WWII
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
American Aircraft of World War II
Yeager: An Autobiography
Total Control
The Complete Book of Fighters: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Every Fighter Aircraft Built and Flown
Sled Driver: Flying the World's Fastest Jet
The Big Show: The Classic Account of WWII Aerial Combat (Pierre Clostermann's Air War Collection Book 1)
Wings of the Luftwaffe: Flying German Aircraft of the Second World War
Flight: The Complete History
Warthog: Flying the A-10 in the Gulf War
Mustang at War
The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft
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
80 books — 31 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

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
479 books — 85 voters
Ferry Pilot by Kerry McCauleyWind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryCross Winds by Steven  MyersThe Hunters by James SalterThe Heathrow Affair by Lance Morcan
Best Aviation Literature
16 books — 14 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 BakerLEARN TO FLY AND BECOME A PILOT! by Vesa TurpeinenMedevac by Declan DalyUp in the Air by Walter Kirn
Flight Books
16 books — 10 voters


Jasper Fforde
There is no point in expending good money on the pursuit of an engine that can power aircraft without propellers. What is wrong with airships anyway? They have borne mankind aloft for over a hundred relatively accident-free years and I see no reason to impugn their popularity...
Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

Mohith Agadi
There's only one job in this world that gives you an office in the sky; and that is pilot. ...more
Mohith Agadi

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