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Just got a new Kindle and was searching through the 100's of aircraft titles available and was wonder if there is a good read any one has come across or a biography style title any one recommends

Cheers
Gavin

PS. this device is brilliant, just transferred my flight sim charts and docs onto it to use while simming.

Here's some, all I highly recommend, great reads:

Vipers in the Storm - Keith Rosenkranz - F16 pilot in Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

So You Want to be a Ferry Pilot - Spike Nasmyth - Interesting stories, quite humorous, this guy sure enjoys a drink

When Penguins Flew and Water Burned - Jim Clonts - Really good book about B-52 flying from the nav/weps perspective, some desert storm missions

Snowbird, The Rise and Fall of a Medellin Drug Pilot - William Norris - Quite a fascinating if not frustrating read, not written by a pilot but still interesting

A Lonely Kind of War - Marshall Harrison - Excellent read about FAC's in Vietnam flying the Bronco. Real hero's these guys

A Hundred Feet Over Hell - Jim Hooper - Another excellent FAC book about flying the Bird Dog.

Flying the SR-71 Blackbird - Richard H. Graham - Detailed description of flying the SR-71 on an operation with lots of background info. Very cool.

Me ... a biography style , I go directly to the 'SCHIFFER MILITARY HISTORY' published range .. comes with a biography but also facts photos .. now have a dozen of them and they are hardcover and gloss print , most recent on the Lockheed P2v Neptune , collectors books and brilliant read ... start going to sleep just study the photos

nzav8tor wrote:

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Vipers in the Storm - Keith Rosenkranz - F16 pilot in Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

So You Want to be a Ferry Pilot - Spike Nasmyth - Interesting stories, quite humorous, this guy sure enjoys a drink

When Penguins Flew and Water Burned - Jim Clonts - Really good book about B-52 flying from the nav/weps perspective, some desert storm missions

Snowbird, The Rise and Fall of a Medellin Drug Pilot - William Norris - Quite a fascinating if not frustrating read, not written by a pilot but still interesting

A Lonely Kind of War - Marshall Harrison - Excellent read about FAC's in Vietnam flying the Bronco. Real hero's these guys

A Hundred Feet Over Hell - Jim Hooper - Another excellent FAC book about flying the Bird Dog.

Flying the SR-71 Blackbird - Richard H. Graham - Detailed description of flying the SR-71 on an operation with lots of background info. Very cool.

I may have to go through this list as well ...... who said you can find this stuff all on PC ... dou't it , get bute day with some of these titles

Chickenhawk by Robert Mason - a narrative of his experiences as a UH-1 Iroquois helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War. The book chronicles his enlistment, flight training, deployment to and experiences in Vietnam, and his experiences after returning from the war. I read it in my early years in the Air Force. It was practically a compulsory read at 3 Sqn I believe !!

Cripes, it must be a goodie .... "More than half a million copies of Chickenhawk have been sold since it was first published in 1983." and going cheap at 12 bucks .

Yeah its a great book

'Forever flying' by Bob Hoover is a great read. He was meant to be the first man to break the speed of sound instead of his best mate Chuck Yeager.....but he was a a very naughty boy

Loop'D'loop Bob with his cuppa tea the chap could fly ... met Chuck at the Wanaka show

Wicked thanks for that, I thought I had already read a lot and I haven't come across any of these titles yet. I think for starters I'll pick books of the Aircraft I fly the most in Flight Sim, then work my way through the above titles.

Starting with the B-52 and Bronco.

Just downloaded "We Were Crewdogs" for $3.00, looks really interesting,
also have an interest in odd WW2 Lufftwaffe aircraft titles like the Horten 229 etc

Gav , I think be worth a trip back to the mount just to check your book shelf , i have a couple on the B-52 but lack the Bronco another couple of goodies i have here is the F-111 and the ACC Bomber Triad

Ian Warren wrote:

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Gav , I think be worth a trip back to the mount just to check your book shelf , i have a couple on the B-52 but lack the Bronco another couple of goodies i have here is the F-111 and the ACC Bomber Triad

Sounds good, might be coming down your way soon.
My book shelf mainly consists of aviation books published between 1930-1960, I love those older style books with the art pics of those classic aircraft.

Kahu wrote:

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Sounds good, might be coming down your way soon.

Your always more than welcome to stop here , everyone else dose ... but i think i need a trip to Tauranga , aviation books published between 1930-1960 , they would be some library to flick thru