Aircraft

An aircraft is a machine that is able to fly by gaining support from the air. It counters the force of gravity by using either static lift or by using the dynamic lift of an airfoil, or in a few cases the downward thrust from jet engines. Common examples of aircraft include airplanes, helicopters, airships (including blimps), gliders, and hot air balloons.

Many books with this tag will be non-fiction about aircraft types and their history. Besides nonfiction books related to crafts and hobbies, there will also be fiction where the main setting is on an aircraft.

Airframe
Sole Survivor
The Encyclopedia of Aircraft of WWII
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
American Aircraft of World War II
Yeager: An Autobiography
Total Control
The Complete Book of Fighters: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Every Fighter Aircraft Built and Flown
Sled Driver: Flying the World's Fastest Jet
The Big Show: The Classic Account of WWII Aerial Combat (Pierre Clostermann's Air War Collection Book 1)
Wings of the Luftwaffe: Flying German Aircraft of the Second World War
Flight: The Complete History
Warthog: Flying the A-10 in the Gulf War
Mustang at War
The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft
In the Likely Event by Rebecca YarrosOn a Flight to Sydney by J.A.  FordeSuch a Rush by Jennifer EcholsFly Bye by C.W. Farnsworth
Hot Pilots
4 books — 2 voters
Ferry Pilot by Kerry McCauleyCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryLost Horizon by James HiltonLEARN TO FLY AND BECOME A PILOT! by Vesa Turpeinen
Aircraft And Air Travel In Books
86 books — 22 voters

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee ShetterlyKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannBorn a Crime by Trevor NoahMarch by John             LewisEinstein by Walter Isaacson
Non-Fiction read in 2017
481 books — 87 voters
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard BachCoffee, Tea or Me? The Uninhibited Memoirs of Two Airline Ste... by Trudy BakerLEARN TO FLY AND BECOME A PILOT! by Vesa TurpeinenMedevac by Declan DalyUp in the Air by Walter Kirn
Flight Books
16 books — 10 voters

The Fabulous Flying Machines of Alberto Santos-Dumont by Victoria GriffithPlanes by Byron BartonThe Boy and the Airplane by Mark PettI Love Planes! by Philemon SturgesNight Flight by Robert Burleigh
Picture Books About Airplanes
81 books — 16 voters


Craig D. Lounsbrough
If you want to fly under the radar, mediocrity is the aircraft of choice.
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sneha Subramanian Kanta
The path of Dionysian music in scraps of collage, its materiality, its inadvertent touch, its outward gaze.
Sneha Subramanian Kanta

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