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(Please vote on the list so we can improve it.) All the best memoirs and biographies related to aircraft development and flight test.
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Kelly: More Than My Share of It All
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Tex Johnston: Jet-Age Test Pilot
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X-15 Diary: The Story of America's First Space Ship
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Always Another Dawn: The Story of a Rocket Test Pilot
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Contrails Over the Mojave: The Golden Age of Jet Flight Testing at Edwards Air Force Base
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3.94 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Forever Flying: Fifty Years of High-flying Adventures, From Barnstorming in Prop Planes to Dogfighting Germans to Testing Supersonic Jets
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Testing Death: Hughes Aircraft Test Pilots and Cold War Weaponry
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3.83 avg rating — 23 ratings
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747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation
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Cold War Test Pilot: Surviving Crash Landings and Emergency Ejections: From Fast-Jets to Heavy Multi-Engine Aircraft
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4.35 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Wings on My Sleeve
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Vulcan Test Pilot: My Experiences in the Cockpit of a Cold War Icon
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4.16 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
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4.30 avg rating — 10,323 ratings
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Testing Tornado: Cold War Naval Fighter Pilot to BAe Chief Test Pilot
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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
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4.46 avg rating — 16,264 ratings
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Test Pilot: An Extraordinary Career Testing Civil Aircraft
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Chris Taylor (Test Pilot) (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Yeager: An Autobiography
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A Wasp Among Eagles: A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II
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3.93 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
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4.18 avg rating — 7,965 ratings
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Wings on My Sleeve: The World's Greatest Test Pilot tells his story
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Stormy Life: Memoirs of a Pioneer of the Air Age
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Speed: The Life of a Test Pilot and Birth of an American Icon
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4.40 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The Lonely Sky (Aviator's Bookshelf)
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4.45 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Luftwaffe Test Pilot: Flying Captured Allied Aircraft of World War 2
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4.55 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Lovings Love: A Black American's Experiences in Aviation
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4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Voyager
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Spitfire - A Test Pilot's Story
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4.38 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Sky Fever : The Autobiography of Sir Geoffrey De Havilland
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3.41 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Hidden Genius: Frank Mann, the Black Engineer behind Howard Hughes
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H.T. Bryer (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Fighter Pilot's Heaven: Flight Testing the Early Jets
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