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Ernest K. Gann's
Flying Circus
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Ernest K.
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Gann
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A collection of historical essays of the early days of flying
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Wind, Sand and Stars
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Antoine
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de Sain-Exuper y
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The pilot's poet
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Gentlemen of Adventrue
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Ernest K.
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Gann
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A novel of the early days of aviation
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Stick and Rudder
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Wolfgang
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Langewiesc he
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The original (and still the bible) how airplanes (and pilots) fly
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The Spirit of St. Louis
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Charles
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Lindbergh
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A diary of crossing the Atlantic
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Lindgergh - A Biography
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Leonard
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Mosley
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Lindbergh's life, including the difficult days during and after WW II
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West with the Night
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Beryl
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Markham
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An autobiography of the first woman to fly eastward across the Atlantic - a
fascinating woman
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Straight on Till Morning
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Mary S.
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Lovell
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Biography of Beryl Markham
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In the Company of Eagles
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Ernest K.
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Gann
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A novel of flying in WW I
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I Could Never Be So
Lucky Again
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Jimmy
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Doolittle
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An autobiography of a fascinating American legend
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Clash of Wings
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Walter J.
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Boyne
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World War II in the Air, by the former director of the Air & Space SmithsonianÂ
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Fate is the Hunter
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Ernest K.
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Gann
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Gann's first, and best, "autobiography" Flying in the 30's
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Night Witches
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Bruce
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Myles
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Russian women fighter pilots of WW II
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Experiences of the War -
The American Airman in
Europe
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Roger A.
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Freeman
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Stories from the crews of the 8th Air Force in England
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Target Luftwafte
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William
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Ong
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Tragedy and Triumph of the WW II Air Victory - Features former Kansas
City Flying Club member, Ken Martin
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The Cannibal Queen
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Stephen
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Coots
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Flying Across the United States in a Stearman
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Dragonfly
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Bryan
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Burrough
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Aboard the MIR
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The Wrong Stuff
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Truman
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Smith
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Adventures and Mis-Adventures of an 8th Air Force Aviator
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Wasps - Women Air
Force Service Pilots of
WW II
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Vera S.
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Williams
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America's Women flyers in WW II
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The Wild Blue - The Men
and Boys Who Flew the
B-24s Over Germany
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Stephen
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Ambrose
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A terrific acount of the B-24 in WW II by one of our nation's best historians.
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Return of the Enola Gay
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Paul W.
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Tibbets
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The preparation and delivery of America's first atomic bomb
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High Flyers
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Fopp
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Michael
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30 Reminiscences celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the RAF
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The Berlin Candy Bomber
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Gail
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Halvorsen
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Dropping candy to kids during the Berlin Airlift
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Song of the Sirens
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Ernest K.
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Gann
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Another Gann bok, this one combining his stories of the sea and air
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Father Goose
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Bill
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Lishman
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Flying with the geese in an ultralight
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The Flying North
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Jean
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Potter
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A history of flying in Alaska and the Yukon
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Alaska's Sky Follies
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Joe
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Rychetknik
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The funny side of flying in the far north
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The Black Watch
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Ernest K.
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Gann
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Flying the U-2
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Voyager
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Dick,
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Rutan
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One takeoff, one tank of gas, one landing, around the world
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Jeanna
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Yeager
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The 11 Days of Christmas
- America's Last Vietnam
Battle
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Michel
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Marshall
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A truly exciting account of the last air battle of the Viet Nam war. The Story of
Linebacker II. What went right, and mostly what went wrong. For those of
us
who were there, this book really tells it like it was
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Da Nang Diary
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Tom
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Yarborough
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I used to listen to these guys on the radio when I was flying over Viet Nam.
This is what the "Covey" guys were doing down in the bushes in Viet
Nam,
Cambodia, and Laos. - Chris
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In Love and War
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Jim and Sybil
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Stockdale
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The story of Medal of Honor holder, before, during, and after his
imprisonment in North Viet Nam
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John Glenn - A Memoir
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John
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Glenn
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The autobiography of the first American to orbit the earth
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A Man on the Moon
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Andrew
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Chaikin
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What it took to put Neil Armstrong on the Moon
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Two Sides of the Moon
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David
Alexei
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Scott
Leonov
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Side by side descriptions of the space race from the first man to walk in space
, and the commander of Apollo 15
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Riding Rockets
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Mike
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Mullane
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"Outrageous tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut"
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Inside the Sky
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William
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Langewiesc he
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A meditaion on flight
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Flight of Passage
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Rinker
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Buck
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True story of two teen-age boys who rebuild a J-3 Cub and fly it across the country
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Unbroken" A World War
II story of
survival,
resistance and
redemption"
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Laura
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Hillenbrand
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six weeks on a raft, two years in a Japanese POW camp, and ??
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The Lucky Bastards Club
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Eugene
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Fletcher
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How B-17 pilots trained and survived
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Dead Men Flying
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Pat
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Brady
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The story of "Dustoff", the army helicopter unit that brought the wounded back
from the Viet Nam battlefields.
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Queen Bess, Daredevil Aviator
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Doris
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Rich
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The story of Bessie Coleman, America's first black women pilot.
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Searching for the Epic of
Flight - 107 Books
Briefly
Noted
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Robert
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Hing
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A wonderful book of book reviews. Robert Hing's list includes aviation
books of all genres, old and new. Check it out to get some new suggestions
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Forever Flying - Fifty Years of High-Flying Adventures
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Bob
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Hoover
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I know of Bob Hoover as the epitome of exhibition pilots. But until I read his
autobiography I was not aware of his years as a military and civilian test
pilot,
or just about everyone you ever heard of in aviation. This book just feels like
you sitting with him in a small social gathering, hearing him spin stories.
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Flight of the Phoenix
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Elleston
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Trevor
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When you make a forced landing in the desert, you have three choices - Walk
200 miles to the nearest oasis, die, or build a new airplane out of what is left
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Atlantic Fever " Lindbergh,
His Competitors, and the
Race to
Cross the
Atlantic"
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Joe
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Jackson
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When Charles Lindberg decided to try to make his Atlantic Ocean crossing,
he had a lot of compnay. Who were they? And why did they fail?
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