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best flying books?
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 |
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"Cubdriver" usenet AT danford DOT net wrote in message ... 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 |
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"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
... "Cubdriver" usenet AT danford DOT net wrote in message ... 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 |
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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 "Paul Riley" wrote in message ... "Dudley Henriques" wrote in message ... "Cubdriver" usenet AT danford DOT net wrote in message ... 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 |
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"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
... 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 |
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"Paul Riley" wrote in message news "Dudley Henriques" wrote in message ... 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 |
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"Cubdriver" usenet AT danford DOT net wrote in message ... 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? _Chickenhawk_ by Robert Mason _Samurai_ by Saburo Sakai with Martin Caidin _Thunderbolt_ by Robert S. Johnson _Wind,Sand and Stars_ by Antoine de Saint-Exupery -- Dan C172RG at BFM |
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On May 5, 4:58 pm, "Dan Luke" wrote:
_Wind,Sand and Stars_ by Antoine de Saint-Exupery That's a favorite; it's also included in "A trilogy: Airman's Odyssey" , all by A. dS.E. For history, there's Boyd, by Robert Coram (about John Boyd, a distinctively different military pilot. Excellent commentary on management style!) The Bishop's Boys, by Crouch, about the Wrights. Solid with lots of fascinating detail. |
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"Cubdriver" usenet AT danford DOT net wrote in message ... 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 Richard Bach's GA books - A Gift of Wings, Biplane, and Nothing By Chance. KB |
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Nevil Shute
No Highway Round the bend Slide rule Robert Buck weather flying Langewiesche (father) srick and rudder Langewiesche (son) inside the sky All time best fate is the hunter "Kyle Boatright" wrote in message . .. "Cubdriver" usenet AT danford DOT net wrote in message ... 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 Richard Bach's GA books - A Gift of Wings, Biplane, and Nothing By Chance. KB |
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