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Old 12-14-2008, 06:04 PM
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Anyone recommend any good aviation books or any good authors?
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Anyone recommend any good aviation books or any good authors?
"Everything Explained for the Professional Pilot"
by Richie Lengel
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Old 12-14-2008, 07:39 PM
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Fate is the Hunter - Earnest K Gahn

A must read...
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Fate is the Hunter - Earnest K Gahn

A must read...

I second this. I am not a huge fan of aviation reads but an old captain handed me this dirty dingy book one day and said "Kid, you're a damn good stick. Read this book and keep it."

I suggest this to anyone who is an airline pilot. One of the few GREAT books on early airline aviation and what it was like.
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Langewiesche is the author of numerous books, try: Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight (Pantheon, 1998)

Second the Earnest Gann(two ns) Fate is The Hunter, he wrote many books and has a very good and easy to read style, you may also like:The Bad Angel, Arbor House, 1987 and The Black Watch: The Men Who Fly America's Secret Spy Planes, Random House, 1989.

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touching history non fiction
about the pilots and controllers on 9/11. written by an express jet pilot

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"I Could Never Be So Lucky Again" by Gen. James H. Doolittle

"Mavericks of the Sky" by Barry Rosenberg & Catherine Macaulay

"To Conquer The Air" by James Tobin

"SR-71 Revealed" by Richard H. Graham, Col. USAF (Ret)

"The Triumph of Instrument Flight" by Franklyn E. Dailey, Jr.

"North Star Over My Shoulder" by Bob Buck

"Unheeded Warning" by Stephen A. Fredrick

"Skunk Works" by Ben R. Rich

"Forever Flying" by Bob Hoover

"Stranger to the Ground" Richard Bach

"Flying Blind, Flying Safe" by Mary Schiavo
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wow thats for all the recommend. So many choices!
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Originally Posted by jungle View Post
Langewiesche is the author of numerous books, try: Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight (Pantheon, 1998)

Second the Earnest Gann(two ns) Fate is The Hunter, he wrote many books and has a very good and easy to read style, you may also like:The Bad Angel, Arbor House, 1987 and The Black Watch: The Men Who Fly America's Secret Spy Planes, Random House, 1989.

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LOVED the RS Tuck book - great read.

Gann is exceptional as well. I would also recommend a book by Bob Serling (brother of the Twilight Zone guy) - he wrote a book about the Lockheed Electra (L-188, not the older versions) and how they diagnosed and fixed the structural problems on the airplane (whirlmode). It was an awesome book.
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Northern Flights by Gerry Bruder. Floatplanes outta Ketchikan. Best written account of flying in SE Alaska murk, and the good days too, that I've ever read.
Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat, not strictly about aviation, but excellent capture of a time and place in Canada's far reaches. Beautiful, overlooked movie version also.
Nice question, thanks for asking it.
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