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Aviation Books
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The Wright Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 238 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.18 — 99,526 ratings — published 2015
Fate Is the Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.56 — 3,299 ratings — published 1961
West with the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.15 — 41,446 ratings — published 1942
Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,464 ratings — published
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.46 — 17,538 ratings — published 1994
Wind, Sand and Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.12 — 21,570 ratings — published 1939
The Right Stuff (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 115 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.23 — 56,078 ratings — published 1979
Yeager: An Autobiography (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.24 — 6,282 ratings — published 1985
Sully: My Search for What Really Matters (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,730 ratings — published 2009
Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.92 — 9,464 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 72 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.38 — 28,128 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 — 4,744 ratings — published 2013
Flyboys: A True Story of Courage (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.20 — 23,362 ratings — published 2003
Night Flight (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.79 — 12,852 ratings — published 1931
Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot (Audio)
by (shelved 69 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,831 ratings — published 2015
Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge: FAA-H-8083-25A (FAA Handbooks)
by (shelved 67 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.29 — 787 ratings — published 1980
The Killing Zone: How & Why Pilots Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.32 — 637 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 3.82 — 4,776 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 — 65,369 ratings — published 2021
Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.49 — 3,949 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 — 4,313 ratings — published 2021
Flight of Passage: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,146 ratings — published 1997
Chickenhawk (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.28 — 15,771 ratings — published 1983
The Spirit of St. Louis (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,557 ratings — published 1950
Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.22 — 10,279 ratings — published 2006
Airframe (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.75 — 89,965 ratings — published 1996
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 — 8,606 ratings — published 2014
Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,092 ratings — published 2012
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,204 ratings — published 2002
The Aviator's Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.91 — 77,051 ratings — published 2013
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 — 883 ratings — published 2006
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,005,255 ratings — published 2010
The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.00 — 11,034 ratings — published 2001
Airplane Flying Handbook: FAA-H-8083-3A (FAA Handbooks series)
by (shelved 49 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.17 — 426 ratings — published 1999
First Light (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.53 — 3,892 ratings — published 2002
Lindbergh (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,829 ratings — published 1998
One Summer: America, 1927 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.10 — 55,137 ratings — published 2013
Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.51 — 6,460 ratings — published 2014
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.00 — 129,306 ratings — published 2012
Vulcan 607: The Epic Story of the Most Remarkable British Air Attack since WWII (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,772 ratings — published 2006
Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.65 — 14,744 ratings — published 2021
Circling the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.94 — 82,161 ratings — published 2015
SKYGODS: The Fall of Pan Am (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 39 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,061 ratings — published 1995
Flight: The Complete History (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.39 — 322 ratings — published 2002
Samurai: The Unforgettable Saga of Japan's Greatest Fighter Pilot (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,819 ratings — published 1957
Concorde: The thrilling account of history’s most extraordinary airliner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,273 ratings — published
Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,040 ratings — published 2014
I Could Never Be So Lucky Again (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,199 ratings — published 1991
Wings on My Sleeve (Phoenix Press)
by (shelved 37 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,204 ratings — published 1961
The Big Show: The Classic Account of WWII Aerial Combat (Pierre Clostermann's Air War Collection Book 1)
by (shelved 35 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.57 — 3,699 ratings — published 1948
“As an altitude researcher, I know the air turbulence is getting worse every year.”
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“...which was the real Antoine: the one who would stand mesmerised in front of the window on rainy afternoons watching the drops racing across the glass, or the one who turned the attic upside down and then suddenly appeared disguised as a buccaneer or an explorer shouting ridiculous phrases in order to amuse his sisters and cousins.
He asks himself that very question. Who am I? The court jester who shakes his bells when he’s with others, or the silent introvert I am when I’m on my own?”
― The Prince of the Skies
He asks himself that very question. Who am I? The court jester who shakes his bells when he’s with others, or the silent introvert I am when I’m on my own?”
― The Prince of the Skies
