 | First Light by Geoffrey Wellum
Buy used from: £1.48 Most recent but superb on what it feels like to fly
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 | Fate is the Hunter by Ernest K. Gann
Buy new: £6.94 / Used from: £2.53 One of the first writer pilots and still one of the best
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 | Flight to Arras (Penguin Modern Classics) by Antoine Saint-Exupery
Buy new: £6.36 / Used from: £3.55 Tougher, harder, grittier than much else he wrote
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 | Rocket Boys by Homer H. Hickam
Buy used from: £3.29 Not really a flier's story but good nonetheless on the feelings behind flying
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 | Flights of Passage: Recollections of a World War II Aviator by Samual Hynes
Buy used from: £40.95 Excellent -- a young pilots thoughts and feelings
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 | Flight of Passage by Rinker Buck
Buy used from: £1.48 Crazy name! crazy plan! Great story results
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 | No Highway by Nevil Shute
Buy used from: £4.91 Less dated than some of his stuff -- still a superb storyteller
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 | The Sky My Kingdom: Memoirs of the Famous German World War II Test-pilot (Greenhill Military Paperback) by Hanna Reitsch
Buy used from: £15.87 Forget the politics just read about the flying
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 | Going Solo by Roald Dahl
Buy used from: £0.01 No its not for kids; tough, dark and eloquent
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 | Chickenhawk by Robert Mason
Buy new: £5.37 / Used from: £0.01 The ending will blow your mind
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 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.31 OK its only just about flying but who could leave this one out?
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 | The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles A. Lindbergh
Buy used from: £17.95 His autobiography is now out of print but undoubtedly one of the world's greatest pilots
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 | Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys by Michael Collins
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £2.54 The best of the astronauts memoirs
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 | Hard Landing: How the Epic Contest for Power and Profits Plunged the Airlines into Chaos by Thomas Petzinger
Buy used from: £14.49 Get hold of a copy if you can - authoritative on the business of flying
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 | Sky Fever: The Autobiography of Sir Geoffrey De Havilland (Airlife's Classics) by Sir Geoffrey De Havilland
Buy used from: £4.50 A wonderful memoir of one of the great men. What else could the builder of the Mosquito be?
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