Book Reviews & Reccomends

[ScudRunner-d95]

So I got a subscription to Audible.com for Christmas, I think we all have read Fate is the Hunter and I assume most of you have started reading the short stories in Scuds Tall Tales section (more coming just waiting on editor)
So anyone have any good flying book titles I should put on my list or search for?

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[CpnCrunch]

Flights of a Coast Dog - Jack Schofield
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Hangar Flying - Jack Schofield
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The Accidental Airline - Howard White & Jim Spilsbury
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True North: Exploring the Great Wilderness by Bush Plane - George Erickson
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The Purple Plain - H. E. Bates
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No Numbered Runways - Jack Schofield
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[rudderless]

Ernest K. Gann - several books besides Fate is the Hunter
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Spencer Dunmore - several books
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Ronald Keith - Bush Pilot With A Briefcase
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Duncan Kyle - Flight into Fear
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Donald Jack - Three Cheers for Me
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Paul Brickhill - Reach for thr Sky
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[ScudRunner-d95]

Thanks for those, Ill ad a few of my own

Mavericks of the Sky - Barry Rosenberg
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The Max Ward Story a Bush Pilot in the Bureaucratic Jungle - Max Ward
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Double Cross - The inside story of Canadian Airways - Shirley Render
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Skippers of the Sky - William J Wheeler

[mmm...bacon]

First Light - Geoff Wellum

Not aviation:
The Golden Spruce - John Vaillant; 
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The 100 year Old Man.... -Jonas Jonasson


Odd literary factoid: Art Garfunkel ( of Simon and..) has read about 1200 books since the 60's.  He maintains a list of them on his website. (1200 doesn't seem like many? It's one every two weeks, pretty much..)

[Nark1]

Chicken hawk by Bob Mason - fantastic Vietnam helicopter collection.

[mmm...bacon]

Chicken hawk by Bob Mason - fantastic Vietnam helicopter collection.

Nark, have you read the sequel: 'Chickenhawk, Back to the World'?  Fills in a lot of the blanks as to how Mason got from Vietnam to jail.

[Colonel]

Over the decades, I have bought/borrowed/stole many
autobiographical books of pilots from WWI, WWII,
Korea and Vietnam.  Much to learn from all of them!

For example, reading a WWI book, I learned how to
easily prime the PT-22.  A forehead slapper.

My favourites are probably:

Robin Olds - Fighter Pilot:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Olds

John Boyd - Renaissance man.  Ever heard of
the F-15, F-16, F-18, A10 or OODA loop?
http://www.amazon.com/Boyd-The-Fighter-Pilot-Changed/dp/0316796883
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boyd_(military_strategist)

John Boyd may be the most remarkable unsung hero in all of American military history.

Some remember him as the greatest U.S. fighter pilot ever -- the man who, in simulated air-to-air combat, defeated every challenger in less than forty seconds.

Some recall him as the father of our country's most legendary fighter aircraft -- the F-15 and F-16.

Still others think of Boyd as the most influential military theorist since Sun Tzu.

They know only half the story. Boyd, more than any other person, saved fighter aviation from the predations of the Strategic Air Command.

His manual of fighter tactics changed the way every air force in the world flies and fights. He discovered a physical theory that forever altered the way fighter planes were designed.

Later in life, he developed a theory of military strategy that has been adopted throughout the world and even applied to business models for maximizing efficiency. And in one of the most startling and unknown stories of modern military history, the Air Force fighter pilot taught the U.S. Marine Corps how to fight war on the ground. His ideas led to America's swift and decisive victory in the Gulf War and foretold the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

On a personal level, Boyd rarely met a general he couldn't offend. He was loud, abrasive, and profane. A man of daring, ferocious passion and intractable stubbornness, he was that most American of heroes -- a rebel who cared not for his reputation or fortune but for his country.

He was a true patriot, a man who made a career of challenging the shortsighted and self-serving Pentagon bureaucracy. America owes Boyd and his disciples -- the six men known as the "Acolytes" -- a great debt. Robert Coram finally brings to light the remarkable story of a man who polarized all who knew him, but who left a legacy that will influence the military -- and all of America -- for decades to come

Amazing people that were best appreciated
from a distance.  Funny how amazing people
have that in common  )

[ScudRunner-d95]

He was loud, abrasive, and profane. A man of daring, ferocious passion and intractable stubbornness

[Gravel Digger]

I feel bad for saying, but Jimmy Buffett's "A Pirate looks at Fifty" is a neat, laid-back read. It chronicles a bunch of trips in his Grumman Albatross and how to stick your name to virtually anything.


Chris Hadfield's book was pretty great
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and I really loved Chesley Sullenberger's "Highest Duty" as well.
(which has nothing to do with taking a poop at 45,000ft)
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