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The Wright Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 233 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.17 — 98,299 ratings — published 2015
Fate Is the Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.56 — 3,227 ratings — published 1961
West with the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.15 — 40,847 ratings — published 1942
Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,437 ratings — published
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.46 — 16,732 ratings — published 1994
Wind, Sand and Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.12 — 21,021 ratings — published 1939
The Right Stuff (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 113 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.23 — 55,490 ratings — published 1979
Sully: My Search for What Really Matters (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,574 ratings — published 2009
Yeager: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.24 — 6,195 ratings — published 1985
Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.92 — 9,279 ratings — published 2018
The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,671 ratings — published 2013
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 — 27,659 ratings — published 2012
Flyboys: A True Story of Courage (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.20 — 23,080 ratings — published 2003
Night Flight (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.79 — 12,439 ratings — published 1931
Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot (Audio)
by (shelved 68 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,794 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 — 770 ratings — published 1980
The Killing Zone: How & Why Pilots Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.32 — 623 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 — 63,548 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 — 4,721 ratings — published 2013
Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.49 — 3,854 ratings — published 2010
Flight of Passage: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.42 — 2,097 ratings — published 1997
Chickenhawk (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.27 — 15,156 ratings — published 1983
Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,179 ratings — published 2021
The Spirit of St. Louis (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,549 ratings — published 1950
Shot Down: The True Story of Pilot Howard Snyder and the Crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.21 — 8,578 ratings — published 2014
Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.21 — 9,955 ratings — published 2006
Airframe (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.74 — 89,056 ratings — published 1996
Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,052 ratings — published 2012
The Aviator's Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.91 — 76,553 ratings — published 2013
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,037 ratings — published 2002
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.39 — 993,476 ratings — published 2010
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 3.99 — 10,661 ratings — published 2001
747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.22 — 863 ratings — published 2006
Airplane Flying Handbook: FAA-H-8083-3A (FAA Handbooks series)
by (shelved 50 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.17 — 421 ratings — published 1999
First Light (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.53 — 3,801 ratings — published 2002
Lindbergh (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,799 ratings — published 1998
One Summer: America, 1927 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.10 — 54,578 ratings — published 2013
Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.51 — 6,304 ratings — published 2014
Vulcan 607: The Epic Story of the Most Remarkable British Air Attack since WWII (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,741 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 — 14,290 ratings — published 2021
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.00 — 127,715 ratings — published 2012
Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,002 ratings — published 2014
Circling the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as aviation)
avg rating 3.94 — 81,624 ratings — published 2015
SKYGODS: The Fall of Pan Am (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 39 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,038 ratings — published 1995
Samurai: The Unforgettable Saga of Japan's Greatest Fighter Pilot (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,780 ratings — published 1957
Wings on My Sleeve (Phoenix Press)
by (shelved 36 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,180 ratings — published 1961
I Could Never Be So Lucky Again (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,188 ratings — published 1991
Concorde: The thrilling account of history’s most extraordinary airliner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.53 — 1,158 ratings — published
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 — 3,642 ratings — published 1948
Weather Flying (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as aviation)
avg rating 4.26 — 209 ratings — published 1979
“…it was even more disconcerting to examine your charts before a proposed flight only to find that in many cases the bulk of the terrain over which you had to fly was bluntly marked: ‘UNSURVEYED.’ It was as if the mapmakers had said, ‘We are aware that between this spot and that one, there are several hundred thousands of acres, but until you make a forced landing there, we won’t know whether it is mud, desert, or jungle – and the chances are we won’t know then!”
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“We’ve flipped through all 6,000 pages of government-speak so you don’t have to. All killer, no filler.”
― Red Raven Part 107 Guidebook: A Complete Study Guide for the FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Certification
― Red Raven Part 107 Guidebook: A Complete Study Guide for the FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Certification












