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
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
Johann Sebastian Bach by Christoph WolffHidden Figures by Margot Lee ShetterlyKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannBorn a Crime by Trevor NoahMarch by John             Lewis
Non-Fiction read in 2017
482 books — 99 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

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 McCauleyWind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Hunters by James SalterThe Heathrow Affair by Lance MorcanMedevac by Declan Daly
Best Aviation Literature
15 books — 13 voters

Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard BachCoffee, Tea or Me? The Uninhibited Memoirs of Two Airline Ste... by Trudy BakerMedevac by Declan DalyThe Flying Book by David BlatnerWhen I Fell from the Sky by Juliane Koepcke
Flight Books
16 books — 10 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?
59 books — 50 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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