 | Flight of the "Gin Fizz": Midlife at 4, 500 Feet by Henry Kisor
Buy used from: £1.70 What's good about people, flying and aircraft.
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 | Zero Three Bravo: Solo across America in a Small Plane (A Touchstone book) by Mariana Gosnell
Buy new: £23.00 / Used from: £7.83 What's good about America - inspiring stuff.
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 | Flight of Passage by Rinker Buck
Buy used from: £1.48 What's good about America - more inspiration and a remarkable story.
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 | First Light by Geoffrey Wellum
Buy used from: £0.01 What's good about the UK - the few. Brilliant.
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 | Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into the Heart of America by Stephen Coonts
Buy used from: £9.00 More basics, more America. Lots of it.
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 | Ernest K. Gann's Flying Circus (Bantam Air & Space Series, No. 20) by Ernest K. Gann
Buy used from: £14.75 Not the best-known Gann, but arguably equal to Fate is the Hunter . A great writer.
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 | SAGITARIUS RISING by CECIL LEWIS
The Great War: a great classic.
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| Book of flying by Neville Duke
Buy used from: £65.79 If you can find it, grab it. I have an American version of this (I think), bought on impulse. The best $3 ever spent. Worth tracking down.
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 | Wings Over Georgia by Jack Currie
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 Jack Currie's training memoirs; more interesting to this private pilot than his service in the theatre of war, although anything from this man is recommended
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 | Propellerhead by Antony Woodward
Buy used from: £0.01 New enough for some of us to recognise the places and some of the characters. Humour, inspiration, frustration..it's all here.
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 | Think Like a Bird: An Army Pilot's Story by Alex Kimbell
Buy used from: £33.78 More wartime training, beautifully told with humility and wit.
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 | Tails of the Fifties: Anthology of Aviation Memories
Buy used from: £9.32 Any of this series is a good read. Post war glory days, for some more than others, perhaps, but enjoy these anecdotes of flying at its best. Simply fun.
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| Birds and Fools Fly by John Urmston
Build your own the hard way, then remember to write about it. Well.
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 | Gift of Wings by Richard Bach
Buy used from: £0.01 Wary of recommending his whole output, I'm happy to include this. For soulful mood-reading.
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