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The Wright Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 244 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.18 — 100,710 ratings — published 2015
Fate Is the Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.57 — 3,378 ratings — published 1961
West with the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.16 — 42,118 ratings — published 1942
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.46 — 18,263 ratings — published 1994
Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,489 ratings — published
Wind, Sand and Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.12 — 22,064 ratings — published 1939
The Right Stuff (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 117 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.23 — 56,820 ratings — published 1979
Sully: My Search for What Really Matters (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,862 ratings — published 2009
Yeager: An Autobiography (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.25 — 6,339 ratings — published 1985
Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.92 — 9,641 ratings — published 2018
A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.39 — 28,506 ratings — published 2012
Flyboys: A True Story of Courage (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.20 — 23,596 ratings — published 2003
The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,817 ratings — published 2013
Night Flight (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.78 — 13,216 ratings — published 1931
Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot (Audio)
by (shelved 70 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,860 ratings — published 2015
Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge: FAA-H-8083-25A (FAA Handbooks)
by (shelved 69 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.29 — 801 ratings — published 1980
The Killing Zone: How & Why Pilots Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.32 — 649 ratings — published 2000
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.02 — 66,978 ratings — published 2021
Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel: Questions, Answers & Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.81 — 4,838 ratings — published 2013
Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,436 ratings — published 2021
Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.49 — 4,018 ratings — published 2010
The Spirit of St. Louis (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,564 ratings — published 1950
Chickenhawk (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.28 — 16,004 ratings — published 1983
Flight of Passage: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,185 ratings — published 1997
Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.22 — 10,548 ratings — published 2006
Airframe (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.75 — 90,797 ratings — published 1996
Shot Down: The True Story of Pilot Howard Snyder and the Crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.21 — 8,590 ratings — published 2014
Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,132 ratings — published 2012
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,322 ratings — published 2002
747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.22 — 896 ratings — published 2006
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,015,003 ratings — published 2010
The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.00 — 11,170 ratings — published 2001
The Aviator's Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.91 — 77,608 ratings — published 2013
First Light (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.53 — 3,967 ratings — published 2002
Airplane Flying Handbook: FAA-H-8083-3A (FAA Handbooks series)
by (shelved 50 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.17 — 429 ratings — published 1999
Lindbergh (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,852 ratings — published 1998
One Summer: America, 1927 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.10 — 55,938 ratings — published 2013
Vulcan 607: The Epic Story of the Most Remarkable British Air Attack since WWII (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,818 ratings — published 2006
Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.65 — 15,081 ratings — published 2021
Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.51 — 6,587 ratings — published 2014
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.99 — 130,635 ratings — published 2012
SKYGODS: The Fall of Pan Am (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 42 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,085 ratings — published 1995
Circling the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.94 — 82,722 ratings — published 2015
Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,085 ratings — published 2014
Concorde: The Thrilling Account of History's Most Extraordinary Airliner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,437 ratings — published
Flight: The Complete History (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.39 — 328 ratings — published 2002
The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,575 ratings — published 2020
I Could Never Be So Lucky Again (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,210 ratings — published 1991
Samurai: The Unforgettable Saga of Japan's Greatest Fighter Pilot (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,846 ratings — published 1957
Wings on My Sleeve (Phoenix Press)
by (shelved 36 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,227 ratings — published 1961
“And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch of a human hand, and join their life with the pilot's own.”
― A Gift of Wings
― A Gift of Wings
“Being a leader is not to be the centre of attention. It is to be in a position to draw attention to problems in order to create high impact solutions.”
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