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The Wright Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 245 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.18 — 102,159 ratings — published 2015
Fate Is the Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.57 — 3,421 ratings — published 1961
West with the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.16 — 42,586 ratings — published 1942
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.46 — 18,784 ratings — published 1994
Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,503 ratings — published
Wind, Sand and Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.12 — 22,398 ratings — published 1939
The Right Stuff (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 119 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.23 — 57,427 ratings — published 1979
Sully: My Search for What Really Matters (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,993 ratings — published 2009
Yeager: An Autobiography (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.25 — 6,414 ratings — published 1985
Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.92 — 9,716 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 76 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.39 — 28,826 ratings — published 2012
The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,850 ratings — published 2013
Night Flight (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.78 — 13,473 ratings — published 1931
Flyboys: A True Story of Courage (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.20 — 23,728 ratings — published 2003
Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot (Audio)
by (shelved 72 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,883 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 — 817 ratings — published 1980
Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel: Questions, Answers & Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.82 — 4,867 ratings — published 2013
The Killing Zone: How & Why Pilots Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.32 — 656 ratings — published 2000
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.02 — 68,045 ratings — published 2021
Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,517 ratings — published 2021
Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.49 — 4,065 ratings — published 2010
The Spirit of St. Louis (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,573 ratings — published 1950
Chickenhawk (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.28 — 16,184 ratings — published 1983
Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.22 — 10,726 ratings — published 2006
Flight of Passage: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,220 ratings — published 1997
Airframe (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.75 — 91,292 ratings — published 1996
Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,151 ratings — published 2012
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 — 8,600 ratings — published 2014
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,461 ratings — published 2002
747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.21 — 908 ratings — published 2006
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,021,791 ratings — published 2010
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 4.01 — 11,392 ratings — published 2001
First Light (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.53 — 4,027 ratings — published 2002
The Aviator's Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.91 — 77,982 ratings — published 2013
Airplane Flying Handbook: FAA-H-8083-3A (FAA Handbooks series)
by (shelved 48 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.18 — 432 ratings — published 1999
One Summer: America, 1927 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.10 — 56,687 ratings — published 2013
Lindbergh (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,924 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 — 1,836 ratings — published 2006
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 — 15,252 ratings — published 2021
Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.51 — 6,650 ratings — published 2014
SKYGODS: The Fall of Pan Am (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 44 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,100 ratings — published 1995
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.99 — 131,539 ratings — published 2012
Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,118 ratings — published 2014
Concorde: The Thrilling Account of History's Most Extraordinary Airliner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,515 ratings — published
Circling the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.94 — 83,021 ratings — published 2015
Flight: The Complete History (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.38 — 333 ratings — published 2002
Samurai: The Unforgettable Saga of Japan's Greatest Fighter Pilot (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,862 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 37 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,613 ratings — published 2020
Wings on My Sleeve (Phoenix Press)
by (shelved 37 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,240 ratings — published 1961
I Could Never Be So Lucky Again (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,219 ratings — published 1991
“And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch of a human hand, and join their life with the pilot's own.”
― A Gift of Wings
― A Gift of Wings
“The flight manual for the Saturn V rocket—the one that put a man on the moon—was barely 250 pages long. You’re not trying to go to the moon here—you just want to fly a drone.”
― Red Raven Part 107 Guidebook: A Complete Study Guide for the FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Certification
― Red Raven Part 107 Guidebook: A Complete Study Guide for the FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Certification
