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
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
The Encyclopedia of Aircraft of WWII
American Aircraft of World War II
Yeager: An Autobiography
Flyboys: A True Story of Courage
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
Blood River by Tim ButcherThe Lost City of Z by David GrannSavage Harvest by Carl HoffmanIf I Can't Have You by Gregg OlsenFinding Everett Ruess by David  Roberts
What happened to them?
59 books — 50 voters
Harley in the Sky by Akemi Dawn BowmanHornet Flight by Ken FollettCode Name Verity by Elizabeth WeinLeviathan by Scott WesterfeldAirs Above the Ground by Mary  Stewart
Reach for the sky
442 books — 45 voters

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
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. PirsigPeanuts by Charles M. SchulzThe Secret Art of Dr. Seuss by Dr. SeussMythology by Alex RossThe Art of Racing in the Rain by Dave Manak
The Art of.........
463 books — 36 voters

Ferry Pilot by Kerry McCauleyCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryLost Horizon by James HiltonTransAtlantic by Colum McCann
Aircraft And Air Travel In Books
86 books — 22 voters
Ferry Pilot by Kerry McCauleyGustave Whitehead by Susan BrinchmanThe Heathrow Affair by Lance MorcanCross Winds by Steven  MyersUne Autre Histoire de l'Aviation by Toni Giacoia
Aerospace
11 books — 9 voters


Alex Morritt
There is already enough chattering nonsense on the ground. Do we really need aviaries in pressurised tin cans at 30,000 feet as well ?
Alex Morritt, Impromptu Scribe

Craig Ferguson
I do love America. And LA is a very short commute to America its like half an hour on the plane.
craig ferguson

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