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The Wright Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 238 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.18 — 100,055 ratings — published 2015
Fate Is the Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.57 — 3,336 ratings — published 1961
West with the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.16 — 41,767 ratings — published 1942
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.46 — 17,848 ratings — published 1994
Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,478 ratings — published
Wind, Sand and Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.12 — 21,777 ratings — published 1939
The Right Stuff (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 115 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.23 — 56,390 ratings — published 1979
Sully: My Search for What Really Matters (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,793 ratings — published 2009
Yeager: An Autobiography (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.24 — 6,309 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 — 9,531 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 — 28,300 ratings — published 2012
Flyboys: A True Story of Courage (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.20 — 23,464 ratings — published 2003
The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,772 ratings — published 2013
Night Flight (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.78 — 13,000 ratings — published 1931
Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot (Audio)
by (shelved 70 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,842 ratings — published 2015
Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge: FAA-H-8083-25A (FAA Handbooks)
by (shelved 68 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.29 — 794 ratings — published 1980
The Killing Zone: How & Why Pilots Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.32 — 641 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 — 4,799 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 — 65,953 ratings — published 2021
Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.49 — 3,976 ratings — published 2010
Chickenhawk (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.28 — 15,872 ratings — published 1983
Flight of Passage: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.42 — 2,167 ratings — published 1997
Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,362 ratings — published 2021
The Spirit of St. Louis (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,561 ratings — published 1950
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 — 10,381 ratings — published 2006
Airframe (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.75 — 90,283 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 — 3,106 ratings — published 2012
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,250 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 — 1,009,474 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 — 887 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 — 11,102 ratings — published 2001
The Aviator's Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.91 — 77,270 ratings — published 2013
Airplane Flying Handbook: FAA-H-8083-3A (FAA Handbooks series)
by (shelved 50 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.17 — 427 ratings — published 1999
First Light (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.53 — 3,916 ratings — published 2002
Lindbergh (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,839 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 — 1,790 ratings — published 2006
One Summer: America, 1927 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.10 — 55,372 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 — 14,895 ratings — published 2021
Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.51 — 6,513 ratings — published 2014
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.99 — 129,851 ratings — published 2012
Circling the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.94 — 82,425 ratings — published 2015
SKYGODS: The Fall of Pan Am (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 40 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,069 ratings — published 1995
Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,061 ratings — published 2014
Flight: The Complete History (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.39 — 323 ratings — published 2002
Samurai: The Unforgettable Saga of Japan's Greatest Fighter Pilot (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,829 ratings — published 1957
Concorde: The thrilling account of history’s most extraordinary airliner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,365 ratings — published
I Could Never Be So Lucky Again (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,203 ratings — published 1991
Wings on My Sleeve (Phoenix Press)
by (shelved 36 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,216 ratings — published 1961
The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,527 ratings — published 2020
“Flying blind is scary. But not as scary as dying grounded”
― Caliban’s Flight
― Caliban’s Flight
“Amelia Earhart is the inverse Helen Keller of aviation. Nobody has seen or heard from her since her last flight, so she was such a bad pilot she turned the whole world blind and deaf.”
― Me and memes and memories
― Me and memes and memories
