Aviation Book Recommendations

[Euclid]

I am always looking for good books to read with an aviation theme so would welcome your recommendations. To start the ball rolling here are a couple of my recommendations, one military rotary the other civilian fixed wing:


Chickenhawk by Robert Mason. The story of a 60s teenager who left home to join the army and learnt to fly helicopters followed by the inevitable draft to Vietnam.


Fate is the Hunter by Ernest Gann. A cockpit view of the rise of US commercial flying interrupted by WW2. Ernest survived when almost all his contemporaries didn't.

[pgkevet]

[h=1][SIZE=2]There's this one written by my dad - just not available in english...

Mezi nebem a mořem
[/SIZE][/h][h=2][SIZE=2]Autor: [URL="http://www.databazeknih.cz/autori/zdenek-hanus-knapp-49078"]Zdeněk Hanuš Knapp[/URL][/SIZE][/h]
mostly his musings and diary whilst radio operator in 311 squadron

[pgkevet]

this is a classic : [url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1030044.God_Is_My_Co_Pilot]God Is My Co-Pilot by Robert Lee Scott[/url]
and this marginally related navigation book: [url]http://boingboing.net/2008/12/12/navigationgeometry-t.html[/url]