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Jeff Arnold - Oct 10,2007
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I am going on vacation in a couple of weeks. I should have some time on my hands and would like some suggestions on books to read. I am asking this group because I like to read about flying (If you can't be flying, ought to go ahead and read about it eh?) So, please chime in - what are some of your favorite flying books. Given this question, my answer would be 'The Right Stuff' by Chuck Yeager. One of the most captivating books I have ever read.<br /><br />Thanks!
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Dave Edward - Oct 11,2007
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Any book by Ernie K Gann.....A Band of Brothers.... is a great read
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Charles Pickett - Oct 11,2007
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Glenn Curtiss Pioneer of Flight C. R. Roseberry Syracuse University Press
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Kenneth Leonard - Oct 11,2007
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'You want to build and fly a WHAT?' - hysterical humor by a homebuilder. - Dick Starks.
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Don Maxwell - Oct 11,2007
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Inside the Sky, by William Langewiesche, lives up to its subtitle, 'a meditation on flight' pretty well. It's a good companion piece to his dad's (Wolfgang Langewiesche) best-known book, Stick and Rudder.<br /><br />But for first-person flying stories, you might like Fighter Pilots, edited by Jon E. Lewis. Among the pilots telling their own stories in it are Manfred von Richthofen, Billy Bishop, Eddie Rickenbacker, Claire Chenault, Pappy Boyington, and Chuck Yeager. The paperback edition is called The Mammoth Book of Fighter Pilots: Eyewitness Accounts of Air Combat from the Red Baron to Today's Top Guns. You can read some of the first chapter here: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0786710667/ref=sib_fs_top/002-2583988-7464009?ie=UTF8&p=S00I&checkSum=Ni4v%2B17bnOyhYBBqt42SWgTGta%2FGEMwgpRX5DHGi7Jw%3D#reader-link">http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0786710667/ref=sib_fs_top/00<br>2-2583988-7464009?ie=UTF8&p=S00I&checkSum=Ni4v%2B17bnOyhYBBq<br>t42SWgTGta%2FGEMwgpRX5DHGi7Jw%3D#reader-link</a><br />
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Terry Mac Neill - Oct 11,2007
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Jeff,<br /><br />If you care about what is KILLING this country, read ' The Enemy Within ' by <br /><br />Michael Savage. I think I can guarantee that the message will P--- you off.
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Frank A. Carr - Oct 12,2007
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How about: 'Stick and Rudder'...An Explanation of the Art of Flying, by Langewiesche, a classic, avail from Amazon.
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Jeff Arnold - Oct 12,2007
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Thanks for all the great suggestions. My Amazon account is 'active'
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Wade Holt - Oct 14,2007
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You should read Bob Hoover's 'Forever Flying'. It is one of the best non fiction books on flying you will read. It is well written and very funny in places. I love the story he tells about the time he and Chuck Yeager were not getting much flying time so they decided to go into town where they heard a lady was giving flying lessons in a Cub. Hoover signed up. On the day he was to 'solo', Yeager was there to watch. Hoover takes off, immediately pulls the nose up into a stall, falls back into an aileron roll, and goes through all of these stunts, just missing the ground every time. The lady is standing on the field screaming at the top of her lungs to 'pull up', 'turn right', etc. She finally hears Yeager laughing hysterically and asked what was going on. Great book.
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Dan Philgreen - Nov 09,2007
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This is a late response, but for the record, I think I've read every book by Steven Coonts and they all have great 'puts you right in the cockpit' flying in them. His first was 'Flight of the Intruder' and being a former Viet Nam A-6 pilot and a great writer, he does put you right in the middle of it. You feel your left hand trying to push the throttles past the stops.
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