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Finished it. Very interesting read, but not "an aviation book". In his capacity as "chief pilot for MacArthur's office" he got to fly B-25s, B-17s, C-47s, and C-54s, but often he didn't even mention...

I was in Australia the past couple weeks. Brisbane. I've been there before, twice, but didn't know about this place. This building was there in WW-II, and on the 8th floor general Douglas MacArthur...

Just finished the Kindle edition of this one. It’s pretty good. The author, Scott Gloodt, flew "18s" for freight outfits in the US mid-west during the 1970s and 1980s. He says he was inspired by Gann...

I just finished this one. What a great read. It's been out since 1979, but I just found it. The author flew F4U Corsairs in the Royal Navy, off HMS Illustrious in the Indian Ocean and Pacific. The RN...

This is a great read. Author flew Cessna 206s, 402s, BN-2 Islanders, and Twin Otters in and around the mountains of PNG for a couple decades, and went on to drive Air Buses for Cathay Pacific. Each...

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I'm always looking for books that tell a personal story of aviation. Of these two, An Ace of the Eighth was a little dry, while Check Six! was...

This one turned out to be way more interesting than I thought it would be. It's more a "corporate history" of US air carriers, after "deregulation". How the CEOs of the major airlines brutally...

Just finished this one. I initially put it down after about a quarter way through. The author writes with a sarcastic style that makes it look like he has an "ax to grind" against Pan Am. The book is...

Just finished this one. It's pretty good. Mallick was a navy pilot in the Korean War, then spent the rest of his career as a NACA/NASA test pilot, until retirement in 1987. He has very interesting...

That definitely looks interesting, VP!

Just received this one in the mail from Amazon. Paperback, Published in 1963. Lots of good stuff, race results, details of the planes, and stories of the...

I just ordered this one...

This is a great book. The idea, as you can figure out from the title, is a look at how the development of race planes advanced the technology of aviation. Lots of technical stuff on the race planes...

Good finds, Moses! I found this today at the local used book store:

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Just finished this one. What a great read. North Star Over My Shoulder, by Robert Buck. This guy flew for TWA, from DC-2s to 747s, so you can imagine he has a lot of stories to tell. During WW-II, in...

Just finished this book by James Greiner. It's a biography of a man named Don Sheldon, who started a company called Talkeetna Air Service, in Alaska. He did a lot of flying around the Mountains of...

Just finished this most interesting book. It's about two brothers, 17 and 15 years old, who in 1966 flew their Piper Cub, which they restored themselves in a barn, across the country from New Jersey...

Interesting book. Billy Bush was an SB2C Helldiver pilot in WW-II. He was among that second generation of pilots and aircrew, who joined after Pearl
Harbor. While all the epic carrier battles on...

Bought this book because it looked interesting. It was. The author, Greg Fletcher, is the son of the central figure of the book, Will Fletcher, who was a TBM Avenger pilot in WW-II, flying from the...

One of the most interesting books I've read in a while.

The author, George Erickson is, among other things, a retired dentist. He had flown this area for decades with various flying buddies, each...

Reading an interesting book called Operation Plum, by Adrian Martin and Larry Stephenson. “Plum” was the name of the operation to reinforce the Philippines with air power prior to the start of the...

Ok, If it's about aircraft carriers, does it count as "aviation" history?

Just finished an outstanding book: Black Shoe Carrier Admiral, Frank Jack Fletcher at Coral Sea, Midway, and Guadalcanal,...