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
Warthog: Flying the A-10 in the Gulf War
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
Mustang at War
Ferry Pilot by Kerry McCauleyWind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryCross Winds by Steven  MyersThe Hunters by James SalterThe Heathrow Affair by Lance Morcan
Best Aviation Literature
16 books — 14 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.........
468 books — 39 voters

Alive by Piers Paul ReadMiracle in the Andes by Nando ParradoFlight 232 by Laurence GonzalesThe Mystery of Flight 427 by Bill AdairLost in Shangri-la by Mitchell Zuckoff
Planes - accidents
71 books — 31 voters
Ferry Pilot by Kerry McCauleyCross Winds by Steven  MyersThe Heathrow Affair by Lance MorcanGustave Whitehead by Susan BrinchmanUne Autre Histoire de l'Aviation by Toni Giacoia
Aerospace
11 books — 9 voters

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?
60 books — 50 voters
Johann Sebastian Bach by Christoph WolffHidden Figures by Margot Lee ShetterlyA Guide to Running Your First Marathon by Doug LimbrickKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannBorn a Crime by Trevor Noah
Non-Fiction read in 2017
485 books — 110 voters


Steven Magee
“ Flying in a modern jet airplane doses the human with levels of radiation comparable to those found in nuclear disaster zones. ”
― Steven Magee

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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