best flying books?

On Sat, 05 May 2007 17:41:04 -0400, Cubdriver usenet AT danford DOT
net wrote:


I am making a short list of books about flying (including combat
flying). So far I've got When Thunder Rolled, Fate Is The Hunter, and
Flight of Passage.

What are your favorites?

Blue skies! -- Dan Ford

The Shepherd - Frederick Forsythe (great Christmas present for the
pilot)

jb

Stick & Rudder, of course, but it's been mentioned.

Richard Taylor, Instrument Flying

Sparkey Imeson, Mountain Flying

Harvey S. Plourde, The Compleat Taildragger pilot

Cheers
H.


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On Sat, 05 May 2007 17:41:04 -0400, Cubdriver usenet AT danford DOT
net wrote:


I am making a short list of books about flying (including combat
flying). So far I've got When Thunder Rolled, Fate Is The Hunter, and
Flight of Passage.

What are your favorites?

Blue skies! -- Dan Ford

The Shepherd - Frederick Forsythe (great Christmas present for the
pilot)

jb

"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
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"Cubdriver" usenet AT danford DOT net wrote in message
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I am making a short list of books about flying (including combat
flying). So far I've got When Thunder Rolled, Fate Is The Hunter, and
Flight of Passage.

What are your favorites?

Blue skies! -- Dan Ford

"God Is My Co Pilot", but you probably already have it listed :-)
Dudley Henriques


Hi Dudley,

In case you are interested, the movie of "God Is My Copilot" is currently
scheduled to be broadcast on Turner Classic Movies (I get it via DISH
Satellite Network) on July 10th, 1115-1300, Central Daylight Time. I would
guess that other carriers of TCM will also have it at the same time. One of
my favorite reads as well.

Paul

Thanks for the heads up Paul. I actually have a copy of the film in my
library. Bob Scott was a close personal friend for many years.
The "inside story" on how the book was actually written by Bob is quite
interesting as he explained it to me. He was a wonderful fellow and we miss
him a ton. He was active right up to the last.
I actually think I've been exposed to the story for so long now, you could
probably quote me a single line from the film and I could nail the scene in
a few seconds :-))
Dudley

"Paul Riley" wrote in message
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"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
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"Cubdriver" usenet AT danford DOT net wrote in message
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I am making a short list of books about flying (including combat
flying). So far I've got When Thunder Rolled, Fate Is The Hunter, and
Flight of Passage.

What are your favorites?

Blue skies! -- Dan Ford

"God Is My Co Pilot", but you probably already have it listed :-)
Dudley Henriques


Hi Dudley,

In case you are interested, the movie of "God Is My Copilot" is currently
scheduled to be broadcast on Turner Classic Movies (I get it via DISH
Satellite Network) on July 10th, 1115-1300, Central Daylight Time. I would
guess that other carriers of TCM will also have it at the same time. One
of my favorite reads as well.

Paul

"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
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Thanks for the heads up Paul. I actually have a copy of the film in my
library. Bob Scott was a close personal friend for many years.
The "inside story" on how the book was actually written by Bob is quite
interesting as he explained it to me. He was a wonderful fellow and we
miss him a ton. He was active right up to the last.
I actually think I've been exposed to the story for so long now, you could
probably quote me a single line from the film and I could nail the scene
in a few seconds :-))
Dudley

You are most welcome Dudley. I envy you your close friendship with Col
Scott. Sure wish I could have known him.

I have had the film in my library on video tape for many years. But, tape
does deteriorate over time, so I plan on recording the TCM broadcast to the
Sat Receiver Hard Drive, then put it on DVD. THAT should last for the rest
of my lifetime. :-))))

Paul

"Paul Riley" wrote in message
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"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
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Thanks for the heads up Paul. I actually have a copy of the film in my
library. Bob Scott was a close personal friend for many years.
The "inside story" on how the book was actually written by Bob is quite
interesting as he explained it to me. He was a wonderful fellow and we
miss him a ton. He was active right up to the last.
I actually think I've been exposed to the story for so long now, you
could probably quote me a single line from the film and I could nail the
scene in a few seconds :-))
Dudley

You are most welcome Dudley. I envy you your close friendship with Col
Scott. Sure wish I could have known him.

I have had the film in my library on video tape for many years. But, tape
does deteriorate over time, so I plan on recording the TCM broadcast to
the Sat Receiver Hard Drive, then put it on DVD. THAT should last for the
rest of my lifetime. :-))))

Paul

Just a bit of "trivia" for you on this.

Bob, being a fine author of many books on several subjects beside flying,
naturally gave many lectures on the rubber chicken circuit through his life.
He always laughed when he told me he spent the better part of that life
answering the same question time and time again about his "famous dogfight"
with Tokyo Joe. (Richard Loo, the wonderful character actor, played TJ in
the film as you probably know. )
Bob said that no matter where he was talking, in the questions afterward,
somebody would always ask him what it was like to have shot down Tokyo Joe.
He had to spend the following 10 minutes explaining how Warner Bros. had put
Joe in the film to make it more "exciting" for the movie goer. Bob could
never figure out why the actual events of the air war in China needed any
"extra" excitment. He said it was "darn near exciting enough as it was" :-)
Privately, he laughingly told me one night that shooting Joe down wouldn't
have been all that hard anyway, since somebody forgot to tell Joe that he
didn't have any guns on that AT6 he was flying at the time :-))
Dudley

"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
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Bob, being a fine author of many books on several subjects beside flying,
naturally gave many lectures on the rubber chicken circuit through his
life. He always laughed when he told me he spent the better part of that
life answering the same question time and time again about his "famous
dogfight" with Tokyo Joe. (Richard Loo, the wonderful character actor,
played TJ in the film as you probably know. )
Bob said that no matter where he was talking, in the questions afterward,
somebody would always ask him what it was like to have shot down Tokyo
Joe. He had to spend the following 10 minutes explaining how Warner Bros.
had put Joe in the film to make it more "exciting" for the movie goer. Bob
could never figure out why the actual events of the air war in China
needed any "extra" excitment. He said it was "darn near exciting enough as
it was" :-)
Privately, he laughingly told me one night that shooting Joe down wouldn't
have been all that hard anyway, since somebody forgot to tell Joe that he
didn't have any guns on that AT6 he was flying at the time :-))
Dudley

Thanks for that Dudley,

It was something I had always wondered about, but just shrugged it off as a
"Hollywood addition". :-)))

In any event, the film does present Col Scott as the way he was--a fine
soldier!!! As I said before, I envy your friendship with him., I just wish I
could have known him personally.

Paul

"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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Cubdriver usenet AT danford DOT net wrote in
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I am making a short list of books about flying (including combat
flying). So far I've got When Thunder Rolled, Fate Is The Hunter, and
Flight of Passage.

What are your favorites?


X-15, the edge of Space by Milt Thompson
Sagittarius Rising
I could never be so lucky again, Jimmy Doolittle.
In the Company of Eagles, Ernie Gann. Hell, anything by Ernie Gann
Night Flight, Antoine St Exupery, again, anything by St Ex.
Most of Richard Bach's stuff too.

And I was a teenage wannabe, by MxSmanic


Bertie

I hesitate to agree with Bertie but...

Sagittarius Rising by Cecil Lewis

Collected Letters of the Wright Bros.
The Published Writings of Wilber and Orville Wright

best short
How to Groundloop Your Taildragger by Lloyd Beaule

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Cubdriver usenet AT danford DOT net wrote in
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I am making a short list of books about flying (including combat
flying). So far I've got When Thunder Rolled, Fate Is The Hunter,
and
Flight of Passage.

What are your favorites?


X-15, the edge of Space by Milt Thompson
Sagittarius Rising
I could never be so lucky again, Jimmy Doolittle.
In the Company of Eagles, Ernie Gann. Hell, anything by Ernie Gann
Night Flight, Antoine St Exupery, again, anything by St Ex.
Most of Richard Bach's stuff too.

And I was a teenage wannabe, by MxSmanic


Bertie

I hesitate to agree with Bertie but...

Hey, when I'm right I'm right,

And I'm always right.

bertie

Fate is the Hunter, by late Ernest K. Gann ... without any doubts !

007


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