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The Wright Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 242 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.18 — 100,509 ratings — published 2015
Fate Is the Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.57 — 3,365 ratings — published 1961
West with the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 149 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.16 — 42,007 ratings — published 1942
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.46 — 18,109 ratings — published 1994
Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,486 ratings — published
Wind, Sand and Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.12 — 21,961 ratings — published 1939
The Right Stuff (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 116 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.23 — 56,639 ratings — published 1979
Sully: My Search for What Really Matters (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,837 ratings — published 2009
Yeager: An Autobiography (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.25 — 6,327 ratings — published 1985
Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.92 — 9,612 ratings — published 2018
A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.39 — 28,433 ratings — published 2012
The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,804 ratings — published 2013
Flyboys: A True Story of Courage (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.20 — 23,549 ratings — published 2003
Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot (Audio)
by (shelved 71 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,853 ratings — published 2015
Night Flight (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.78 — 13,134 ratings — published 1931
Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge: FAA-H-8083-25A (FAA Handbooks)
by (shelved 68 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.29 — 799 ratings — published 1980
The Killing Zone: How & Why Pilots Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.32 — 647 ratings — published 2000
Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel: Questions, Answers & Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.81 — 4,827 ratings — published 2013
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.02 — 66,605 ratings — published 2021
Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.49 — 4,001 ratings — published 2010
Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,412 ratings — published 2021
Chickenhawk (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.28 — 15,950 ratings — published 1983
Flight of Passage: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.42 — 2,177 ratings — published 1997
The Spirit of St. Louis (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,564 ratings — published 1950
Airframe (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.75 — 90,650 ratings — published 1996
Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.22 — 10,485 ratings — published 2006
Shot Down: The True Story of Pilot Howard Snyder and the Crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.21 — 8,605 ratings — published 2014
Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,126 ratings — published 2012
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,299 ratings — published 2002
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,013,241 ratings — published 2010
747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.22 — 891 ratings — published 2006
The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.00 — 11,154 ratings — published 2001
The Aviator's Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.91 — 77,499 ratings — published 2013
First Light (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.53 — 3,948 ratings — published 2002
Airplane Flying Handbook: FAA-H-8083-3A (FAA Handbooks series)
by (shelved 50 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.17 — 428 ratings — published 1999
Lindbergh (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,851 ratings — published 1998
Vulcan 607: The Epic Story of the Most Remarkable British Air Attack since WWII (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,808 ratings — published 2006
One Summer: America, 1927 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.10 — 55,616 ratings — published 2013
Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.65 — 15,020 ratings — published 2021
Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.51 — 6,561 ratings — published 2014
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.99 — 130,366 ratings — published 2012
SKYGODS: The Fall of Pan Am (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 41 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,079 ratings — published 1995
Circling the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.94 — 82,608 ratings — published 2015
Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,077 ratings — published 2014
Flight: The Complete History (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.39 — 327 ratings — published 2002
Concorde: The thrilling account of history’s most extraordinary airliner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,412 ratings — published
I Could Never Be So Lucky Again (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,208 ratings — published 1991
Samurai: The Unforgettable Saga of Japan's Greatest Fighter Pilot (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,844 ratings — published 1957
The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,557 ratings — published 2020
Wings on My Sleeve (Phoenix Press)
by (shelved 36 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,223 ratings — published 1961
“In the quiet, I talked to my friend, who happened to be a T-33, and asked point-blank the questions I could never answer.
'What are you, airplane? What is it about you and all your wide family that has made so many men leave all they know and come to you? Why do they waste good human love and concern on you who are nothing but so many pounds of steel and aluminum and gasoline and hydraulic fluid?”
― A Gift of Wings
'What are you, airplane? What is it about you and all your wide family that has made so many men leave all they know and come to you? Why do they waste good human love and concern on you who are nothing but so many pounds of steel and aluminum and gasoline and hydraulic fluid?”
― A Gift of Wings
“Which would you choose, airplane, polished linoleum floors and a life secure behind purple-velvet rope, or the insecurities of mud and moonlight, of bent propellers and wingtips for repair?”
― Biplane
― Biplane
