Any book recs?
Posted by Dull-Formal-7976@reddit | aviation | View on Reddit | 11 comments
Anyone have any good books recs? I feel like I’ve exhausted the podcast space and want to dive deeper.
Posted by Dull-Formal-7976@reddit | aviation | View on Reddit | 11 comments
Anyone have any good books recs? I feel like I’ve exhausted the podcast space and want to dive deeper.
Terrible_Log3966@reddit
Wings on my sleeve by Eric Winkle Brown.
There's also a very nice documentary about (and with) him on youtube.
The Dakota Hunter: In Search of the Legendary DC-3 on the Last Frontiers by Hans Wiesman
AdvantageVarnsen1701@reddit
Not a book but it should be.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Clipper
This would make an amazing movie or HBO miniseries too.
motor1_is_stopping@reddit
The long way home by ed dover
Chaxterium@reddit
Fate is the Hunter. Amazing book.
Cessnateur@reddit
https://www.amazon.com/Five-Hundred-Feet-Above-Alaska/dp/1513626426?ccs_id=3269d89f-b3d7-4ad6-84d9-560d5f52ebb9
mostredditorsuseana@reddit
Wings of the North by Dick Turner. The author recounts how he was a fur trapper in northern Canada and decided to get a bush plane. 1930s-1970s.
Mike_Drop_GenX@reddit
Hard Landing - Thomas Petzinger JR.
jakerepp15@reddit
Skunkworks, or whatever that Ben Rich book is called. It's kinda amazing.
skipmilan@reddit
Into the Abyss by Carol Shaben (I literally couldn't put it down)
Anything by Erik Larson (currently reading The Splendid and the Vile)
Next up is Fate is the Hunter by Ernest Gann, then maybe Flight of Passage by Rinker Buck
rellford@reddit
Chasing the Squirrel by Ron Petersen Jr. Aviation drug running true-story mystery. Fun read.
TheWurstPirate@reddit
Hawaii by James Michener
The Shining by Stephen King
Rage Against the Meshugenah by Danny Evans