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The Wright Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 240 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.18 — 98,932 ratings — published 2015
Fate Is the Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.56 — 3,262 ratings — published 1961
West with the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.15 — 41,095 ratings — published 1942
Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,449 ratings — published
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.46 — 17,126 ratings — published 1994
Wind, Sand and Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.12 — 21,278 ratings — published 1939
The Right Stuff (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 114 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.23 — 55,767 ratings — published 1979
Yeager: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.24 — 6,238 ratings — published 1985
Sully: My Search for What Really Matters (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,658 ratings — published 2009
Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.92 — 9,367 ratings — published 2018
The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,701 ratings — published 2013
Flyboys: A True Story of Courage (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.20 — 23,217 ratings — published 2003
A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.38 — 27,903 ratings — published 2012
Night Flight (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.79 — 12,637 ratings — published 1931
Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot (Audio)
by (shelved 68 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,809 ratings — published 2015
Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge: FAA-H-8083-25A (FAA Handbooks)
by (shelved 67 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.29 — 781 ratings — published 1980
The Killing Zone: How & Why Pilots Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.32 — 630 ratings — published 2000
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.02 — 64,497 ratings — published 2021
Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel: Questions, Answers & Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.82 — 4,753 ratings — published 2013
Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.49 — 3,895 ratings — published 2010
Flight of Passage: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.42 — 2,124 ratings — published 1997
Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,245 ratings — published 2021
Chickenhawk (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.27 — 15,460 ratings — published 1983
The Spirit of St. Louis (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,552 ratings — published 1950
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 4.21 — 10,116 ratings — published 2006
Airframe (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.75 — 89,529 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 — 8,588 ratings — published 2014
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,128 ratings — published 2002
Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,067 ratings — published 2012
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.39 — 999,914 ratings — published 2010
747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.23 — 873 ratings — published 2006
The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.00 — 10,885 ratings — published 2001
The Aviator's Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.91 — 76,780 ratings — published 2013
Airplane Flying Handbook: FAA-H-8083-3A (FAA Handbooks series)
by (shelved 50 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.17 — 425 ratings — published 1999
First Light (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.53 — 3,855 ratings — published 2002
Lindbergh (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,810 ratings — published 1998
Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.51 — 6,385 ratings — published 2014
One Summer: America, 1927 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.10 — 54,838 ratings — published 2013
Vulcan 607: The Epic Story of the Most Remarkable British Air Attack since WWII (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,758 ratings — published 2006
Come Fly The World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.65 — 14,480 ratings — published 2021
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.00 — 128,619 ratings — published 2012
Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,023 ratings — published 2014
Flight: The Complete History (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.39 — 322 ratings — published 2002
Circling the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.94 — 81,862 ratings — published 2015
SKYGODS: The Fall of Pan Am (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 39 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,050 ratings — published 1995
Samurai: The Unforgettable Saga of Japan's Greatest Fighter Pilot (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,792 ratings — published 1957
I Could Never Be So Lucky Again (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,193 ratings — published 1991
Concorde: The thrilling account of history’s most extraordinary airliner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.53 — 1,211 ratings — published
Wings on My Sleeve (Phoenix Press)
by (shelved 36 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,193 ratings — published 1961
The Big Show: The Classic Account of WWII Aerial Combat (Pierre Clostermann's Air War Collection Book 1)
by (shelved 35 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.57 — 3,661 ratings — published 1948
“An airplane's soul, which [the pilot] can never see or touch, is something that her pilot senses: an eagerness to fly; a little bit of performance that according to the charts should not be there, but is; a spirit behind the bullet-holed mass of torn metal with three propellers feathered, touching down on an English airfield. Not the metal, but the soul of an airplane is what her pilot wants to fly, and the reason he paints the name on her cowling. And with that soul, all planes have an immortality that you can feel when you walk onto any airport.”
― A Gift of Wings
― A Gift of Wings
“He remembered a pilot telling him once, 'They pay us a hundred thousand dollars or more a year, Brian, and they really do it for just one reason. They know that in almost every pilot's career, there are thirty or forty seconds when he might actually make a difference. They pay us not to freeze when those seconds finally come.”
― One Past Midnight: The Langoliers
― One Past Midnight: The Langoliers
