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Old 01-26-2010, 02:05 PM
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Default Song of the Sky

One-One by Dot Lemon.
Song of the Sky by Guy Murchie.
Anything by R. Bach.
Spirit of St. Louis
Chuck Yeager's Autobiography
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Old 01-26-2010, 03:01 PM
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Default Flight of Passage

I'm currently reading "Flight of Passage" by Rinker Buck.

It's a recently written memoir of a coast-to-coast flight in a PA-11 Cub flown by two teenage brothers, Rinker and Kern, in 1966. They had no radios on board, com or nav, and made their way West over land niether boy had ever seen, aided only by reference to sectional charts.

This story has me mesmerized. I am totaly taken in by the romantic adventure as I experience it with them.

Find a copy of this book and read it. You will love it.
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Old 02-04-2010, 11:12 AM
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Default Finally Found a copy of Sopwith Scout 7309 I could afford

After reading the recommendations for it here and searching for several months I found a copy of Sopwith Scout 7309 by P. G. Tayor for less than $100 I found one at www.abebooks.com from a seller in the UK. $72. They have several for not much more.

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Old 03-10-2010, 02:05 PM
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Default Alex Henshaw....

...the factory Spitfire test pilot, wrote "Sigh for a Merlin" that I couldn't put down....incredibly good read. Includes stories of vertical dives to 520 MPH IAS!!, tearing off radiator shrouds and so on, and IMC aerobatics on instruments

Lastly, Gen Jimmy Doolittle's autobiography, "I could never be so lucky again"
includes the B-25 raids on Japan and Sperry's development of the turn and bank and later the true AH with which he became the first pilot to take off, fly a pattern and land without ever seeing the ground. Great read.

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Old 03-10-2010, 05:39 PM
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Default Another Spitfire book

Pierre,
I have just re-read 'Sigh for a Merlin' (after 20 years) and so bought Geoffery Quills "Spitfire. A test Pilot's Story."
Quill did the Development and research testing as distinct from Henshaw who did the production testing.
Quill is in absolute awe of Henshaws ability at very low level aerobatics. There is only one movie clip of him doing low level aeros. See it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCmzYccyBYM

Quill tested the Spitfire for terminal velocity. That required fitting a feathering prop to avoid engine overspeed. The Spitfire reached Mach 0.9, due to it's very thin wings. Much faster than any other WWII fighter. As an indication of how fast this is, the last Boeing I flew, 777, had an MMO (Max Mach Operating) of 0.88.

Quill's book is also a great read.
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Old 03-11-2010, 07:06 AM
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Default Thanks Peter.....

....beautiful footage indeed!

"The flight of the Mew Gull" is another great Henshaw story in setting the London-Cape Town-London record which was only broken last year in a homebuilt, after standing for 70 years!

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Old 03-11-2010, 06:31 PM
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"Illusions" by Richard Bach.
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Old 03-11-2010, 09:03 PM
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Saw an interesting reference in (ex Colt's coach) Tony Dungy's book Quiet Strength. Tony's father was a Tuskegee Airman and Tony never knew it until his father's death in 2003. I found that amazing, although I know there were those who never said anything about the war. He must have been one of 'em. While Quiet Strength has nothing to do with aviation, it is a good read.

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Old 03-11-2010, 10:17 PM
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Pierre mentioned Gen Jimmy Doolittle's autobiography, "I could never be so lucky again." That is one of my favorites because he has such a unique and refreshing perspective on life and the tragedies that he endured. It's also interesting because he was born in the late 1800's and was alive for the whole Wright Brothers to Jets march.

"Illusions" is also good because it opens up the mind of the reader. I don't have the book or the quote handy but there is one in there that says to me that you have a blood family but you also have a spritual family that is connected to you not by blood but by other things like love of aviation, or shared experiences, or just some undefinable thing that instantly bonds two people and years and distance never diminishes. I've got several of those although the ties inmy blood family are much loser!
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Old 03-12-2010, 06:25 AM
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Default Kinda like ......

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........I don't have the book or the quote handy but there is one in there that says to me that you have a blood family but you also have a spritual family that is connected to you not by blood but by other things like love of aviation, or shared experiences, or just some undefinable thing that instantly bonds two people and years and distance never diminishes.
.....the RV fraternity and this forum

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