Misty by Maj Gen Don Sheppard. Awesome stories by Fast FAC's in Vietnam.

Unknown Rider by Scott Anderson

Boyd by Robert Coram

North Star Over My Shoulder

hard landing

It's titled "The Electra Story"

another Gann masterpiece is Island In The Sky which, while fiction, is based on an incident that is described in Fate Is the Hunter.

Not aviation but Atlas Shrugged has always been one of my favorites. Take out the railroads and put the airlines in place and it is eerie how similar certain parts of the book are to what is going on in America. Long book but very interesting.

"Pilots of the Line," by Sky Masterson, is a fabulous read.

I would definitely echo every ones praise of Gann’s “Fate is the Hunter”, a must read for anyone who has a passion for aviation.

Another good one is “The Spirit of St Louis”, by the man him self, Lindbergh. Much to my surprise, it was hard to put down. Who would have knew he was such a talented writer. However, his wife was also an award winning writer, so I would guess she may have helped him polish his writing scripts.

Rick Drury has a book out called "Flight Lines" that is a collection of some of his columns from Airliner magazine. Outstanding!! Highly reccomend one of his earlier books, "My Secret War" about flying SPADS ( Skyraiders) out of Naked Fanny (NKP) during Vietnam.

Just got done reading Boyd.... what an amazing book!... about an amazing pilot.

If you can still find a copy.... Thunderbolt! by Robert S. Johnson as well as MiG pilot about Viktor Belenko two great books!!!

Thanks planespotta this book looks great. Just ordered it from amazon.

When I first made captain in a jet, a friend of mine gave me Fate is the Hunter ( Ernie Gann ) and I read it in a day. What a great book. Another book that I found quite interesting was; Stalin’s Aviation Gulag: A Memoir of Andrei Tupolev and the Purge Era by Leonid Lvovich Kerber, edited by Von Hardesty. Smithsonian Institution Press. How the hell they ever designed and produced aircraft under those conditions is a testament to human fortitude. I haven't read too many books as riveting as this one. You'll have a whole new found respect for Soviet made aircraft, at least the designers....:eek: