Aviation Book Recommendations
Discussion
You might like Bill Waterton's 'The Quick and The Dead'
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00J3YUSJM/ref=dp-kindl...
Some excellent insights into test flying in the 1950s Golden Age - and that there was just as much corporate and bureaucratic inertia and wunkpaffinery going on back then as there is now - probably more so.
Obviously there is a whole genre from that era to call on - anything by Neville Duke for example, and if you haven't been through Eric Brown's prodigious output, now would be an appropriate time.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00J3YUSJM/ref=dp-kindl...
Some excellent insights into test flying in the 1950s Golden Age - and that there was just as much corporate and bureaucratic inertia and wunkpaffinery going on back then as there is now - probably more so.
Obviously there is a whole genre from that era to call on - anything by Neville Duke for example, and if you haven't been through Eric Brown's prodigious output, now would be an appropriate time.
Edited by eharding on Monday 22 February 21:14
Steve vRS said:
Not yet - but thanks for the link, now purchased.Fate is the hunter by Ernest k gann, best ever book about commercial flying in the early days.
Voyager by burt rutan
Chasing the wind by Steve fossett
Yeager by Chuck Yeager
Bob Hoovers autobiography
This spirit of St. Louis by Charles Lindbergh
Handling the big jets by Davies, a rather technical book mainly about flying the 747, one for the real pilot/enthusiast only !
Voyager by burt rutan
Chasing the wind by Steve fossett
Yeager by Chuck Yeager
Bob Hoovers autobiography
This spirit of St. Louis by Charles Lindbergh
Handling the big jets by Davies, a rather technical book mainly about flying the 747, one for the real pilot/enthusiast only !
Steve vRS said:
Yeah, is good.
Also -
and -
Robin Olds "Fighter Pilot" , and Hans Rudel "Stuka Pilot" are firmly in the 'if it were fiction I would never believe it' category. Fascinating reads.
"A Lonely Kind of War" by Marshall Harrison Is a great book by a FAC in Vietnam.
"Going Solo" by Roal Dahl is brilliantly written but not all flying
"Flight of Passage" I believe is about to be made into a movie. About a couple of American kids (literally) who rebuilt a Cub and flew it across America.
"Spirit of St Louis" Charles Lindberg (of course).
I could go on...
"A Lonely Kind of War" by Marshall Harrison Is a great book by a FAC in Vietnam.
"Going Solo" by Roal Dahl is brilliantly written but not all flying
"Flight of Passage" I believe is about to be made into a movie. About a couple of American kids (literally) who rebuilt a Cub and flew it across America.
"Spirit of St Louis" Charles Lindberg (of course).
I could go on...
'Aces in Command' http://www.amazon.com/Aces-Command-Fighter-Pilots-...
A study of Rickenbacher, Zemke, Blesse and Olds.
A study of Rickenbacher, Zemke, Blesse and Olds.
Another one of my favourites:
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed – by Leo Janos and Ben R. Rich (Skunk Works Director)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoi...
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed – by Leo Janos and Ben R. Rich (Skunk Works Director)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoi...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sigh-Merlin-Testing-Spitfi...
Currently really enjoying 'sigh for a merlin' - Alex Henshaw was the chief test pilot for supermarine
Currently really enjoying 'sigh for a merlin' - Alex Henshaw was the chief test pilot for supermarine
Seriously 'Chickenhawk' simply shouts out loud to be read then understand
There's a reason it becomes hard to enjoy towards the end but really
Do
Then read 'First Light'
Then afterwards restore your spirit with 'Wings on my sleeve' by Eric Winkle Brown
If you want fantasy lots of the Dale Brown flight fantasy is good after reading the real thing 'Flight of the intruder'
OH
Just realised I'm not sure how much of my favourite stuff is Kindleable
Oh well carry on
There's a reason it becomes hard to enjoy towards the end but really
Do
Then read 'First Light'
Then afterwards restore your spirit with 'Wings on my sleeve' by Eric Winkle Brown
If you want fantasy lots of the Dale Brown flight fantasy is good after reading the real thing 'Flight of the intruder'
OH
Just realised I'm not sure how much of my favourite stuff is Kindleable
Oh well carry on
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