Most Read This Week In Aviation

Aviation is the practical aspect or art of aeronautics, being the design, development, production, operation and use of aircraft, especially heavier than air aircraft. The word aviation was coined by French writer and former naval officer Gabriel La Landelle in 1863, from the verb avier (synonymous flying), itself derived from the Latin word avis ("bird") and the suffix -ation.

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Most Read This Week Tagged "Aviation"

The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
Falling
Great Circle
Drowning
Love in Plane Sight
Worst Case Scenario
American Sky
Come Fly with Me
Amelia's Shadow
The Defector (Apollo Murders, #2)
Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II
Girls of Flight City
Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am
Countdown to Midnight (Nick Flynn #2)
The Impossible Factory: The Remarkable True Story of Kelly Johnson and the Lockheed Skunk Works, America's Innovation Machine
Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue
The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West
Fly Girl: A Memoir
The Wingmen: The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams
Razor 03: A Night Stalker’s Wars
His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine
Arctic Storm Rising (Nick Flynn, #1)
A Pair of Wings
Mosquito: The RAF's Legendary Wooden Wonder and its Most Extraordinary Mission
Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942 – A Definitive WWII History of the Royal Navy Convoy and Mediterranean Siege
Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival
Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan
The Sailing of the Intrepid: The Incredible Wartime Voyage of the Navy’s Iconic Aircraft Carrier―A World War II Military History Book
The Disappearing Act: The Impossible Case of MH370
Into Unknown Skies: An Unlikely Team, a Daring Race, and the First Flight Around the World
UFO: The Inside Story of the U.S. Government's Search for Alien Life Here―and Out There
Stateless
The Great Air Race: Glory, Tragedy, and the Dawn of American Aviation
The Swallows' Flight
Damn Lucky: One Man's Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History
Barnstormers
The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway
Flying in the Face of Fear: A Fighter Pilot's Lessons on Leading with Courage
Imagine a City: A Pilot's Journey Across the Urban World
The Red Arrows: The Story of Britain’s Iconic Display Team
Flying Camelot: The F-15, the F-16, and the Weaponization of Fighter Pilot Nostalgia
Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb
The Burning Blue: The Untold Story of Christa McAuliffe and NASA's Challenger Disaster
Above the Reich: Deadly Dogfights, Blistering Bombing Raids, and Other War Stories from the Greatest American Air Heroes of World War II, in Their Own Words
The Eagle's Claw
Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space
The Big Hop: The First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean and Into the Future
The Secret Life of Flying
Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin: The Glider Pilots of World War II
We Own the Sky
Cinderella Boys: The Forgotten RAF Force that Won the Battle of the Atlantic
The Saigon Guns: A True Story of Aerial Combat in the Fall of 1972
Span of Control: What to Do When You're Under Pressure, Overwhelmed, and Ready to Get What You Really Want
Going Downtown: The US Air Force over Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, 1961–75
The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet
Wingwalkers
To Save An Army: The Stalingrad Airlift
The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club: Naval Aviation in the Vietnam War
N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia
Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars: The Story of the First American Woman to Command a Space Mission
Test Gods: Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut
Above and Beyond: Secrets of a Private Flight Attendant
Open Skies: My Life as Afghanistan's First Female Pilot
Sprouting Wings: The True Story of James Herman Banning, the First African American Pilot to Fly Across the United States
The Fearless Flights of Hazel Ying Lee
The Final Flight
Soaring in Style
Shatter the Sky: What Going to the Stratosphere Taught Me About Self-worth, Sacrifice, and Discipline
What the Taliban Told Me
Warplane: How the Military Reformers Birthed the A-10 Warthog
The Hijacking of American Flight 119: How D.B. Cooper Inspired a Skyjacking Craze and the FBI's Battle to Stop It

Janna Cachola
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Janna Cachola

Michael               Wilson
The flight manual for the Saturn V rocket—the one that put a man on the moon—was barely 250 pages long. You’re not trying to go to the moon here—you just want to fly a drone.
Michael Wilson, Red Raven Part 107 Guidebook: A Complete Study Guide for the FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Certification

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