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   Re: best flying books?   
   07 May 07 04:03:17   
   
   XPost: rec.aviation.piloting, rec.travel.air   
   From: please@dont.bother   
      
   "Bertie the Bunyip"  wrote in message   
   news:Xns992810AA4E14nunyfjukkinbidness@207.14.116.130...   
   > Cubdriver  wrote in   
   > news:hdup33tnsle8qejn1o3lb3jutsplh8goh6@4ax.com:   
   >   
   >>   
   >> 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   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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