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
American Aircraft of World War II
Yeager: An Autobiography
Total Control
The Encyclopedia of Aircraft of WWII
The Complete Book of Fighters: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Every Fighter Aircraft Built and Flown
The Big Show: The Classic Account of WWII Aerial Combat (Pierre Clostermann's Air War Collection Book 1)
Warthog: Flying the A-10 in the Gulf War
Mustang at War
The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Military Aircraft: 1914 to the Present
A Handbook Of Fighter Aircraft
Flyboys: A True Story of Courage
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

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.........
457 books — 30 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
79 books — 31 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
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
476 books — 83 voters


Mohith Agadi
There's only one job in this world that gives you an office in the sky; and that is pilot. ...more
Mohith Agadi

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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