10 best-selling aviation books like In the Sky: A Retired Captain Looks Back over Fifty-Nine Years by Jerry L. Farquhar

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In the Sky: A Retired Captain Looks Back over Fifty-Nine Years

By: Jerry L. Farquhar

4.51

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

The airline world has changed dramatically in the fifty-six years since I entered it. Some changes …

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1. When Heroes Flew (When Heroes Flew #1)

By: H.W. "Buzz" Bernard

4.52

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

For B-24 bomber pilot Al Lycoming, the mission was history in the making. Dispatched to Benghazi… read more

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2. HUEY WAR: VIIETNAM FROM THE BACKSEAT

By: Bruce Nesmith

4.40

Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition

HUEY WARA UH-1H Huey helicopter is a flimsy machine. It’s the 1960s equivalent of a World War I bip… read more

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3. Cruise Ship SOS: The Life-Saving Adventures of a Doctor at Sea

By: Ben MacFarlane

4.42

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

What happens to patients when it all goes wrong at sea? Say hello to Dr Ben MacFarlane. After spen… read more

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4. Night Intruder: A Personal Account of the Radar War Between the RAF and Luftwaffe Night-Fighter Forces (Memoirs of World War Two in the Air Book 1)

By: Jeremy Howard-Williams

4.24

Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition

An engrossing memoir of one RAF fighter pilot’s battle against the Luftwaffe in the dead of night.I… read more

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5. Walker, R.N.: The Greatest U-Boat Hunter of the Battle of the Atlantic (Submarine Warfare in World War Two)

By: Terence Robertson

4.61

Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition

The astounding biography of the most successful anti-submarine commander of the Second World War.Pe… read more

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6. Dangerous Flights: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

By: Kerry McCauley

4.53

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

Kerry McCauley takes readers inside the perilous business of international aircraft delivery. It’s … read more

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7. Ferry Pilot: Nine Lives Over the North Atlantic.

By: Kerry McCauley

4.52

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

What could possibly go wrong? A LOT, if you spend 30 years flying small airplanes over the North At… read more

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8. What It's Really Like: Flying the Alaska Bush

By: Mort Mason

4.51

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

In What It’s Really Flying the Alaska Bush, Mort Mason has assembled a wide-ranging collection of … read more

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9. Cleared for Takeoff: Memoirs of an Air Traffic Controller

By: John R. "Rusty" Potter

4.18

Format: 546 pages, Kindle Edition

Cleared for Memoirs of an Air Traffic Controller If you are intrigued by the fast-paced field of a… read more

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10. Air Crashes and Miracle Landings: 85 CASES - How and Why

By: Christopher Bartlett

4.29

Format: 632 pages, Kindle Edition

"Congratulation Christopher. Air Crashes and Miracle landings is a great resource for every pilot w… read more

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11. Tumbletite: The Misadventures of a Mississippi Flyboy

By: Johnny Gressett

4.50

Format: 377 pages, Kindle Edition

Tumbletite chronicles the 31-year flying career of a country boy from Mississippi. The author takes… read more

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12. Dead Men Flying, A Remembrance : Going to War in the A-4 - Rolling Thunder over Hanoi

By: Michael Mullane

4.56

Format: 436 pages, Kindle Edition

A masterpiece of becoming an aerial warriorReview by Stephen Coonts, author of Flight of the Intrud… read more

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13. I Lived To Fly Another Day: Confessions from an extraordinary varied flying career

By: George Wrigley

4.05

Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition

I have survived numerous foolhardy escapades and have had countless near misses during my 40-year f… read more

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14. A Reluctant Warrior: The Military Draft, the Navy F4 Phantom, Vietnam, and Top Gun

By: Kenneth Volker

4.29

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

A memoir of a Navy pilot during the war in Vietnam.This story is written from the author’s memory a… read more

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15. Orange Tails and Vapour Trails – Wind in the Wires to Glass Cockpits: A Pilot Remembers

By: Paul Liebrecht

4.22

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

A kaleidoscope of stories from a forty-year career as a pilot, from learning to fly to retiring as … read more

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16. Combat Jet Pilot

By: Lynn High

4.42

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

An account of the over 450 combat missions flown by the author in the Vietnam War. The author is a … read more

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17. An Airline Pilot's Life

By: Chris Manno

4.46

Format: 569 pages, Kindle Edition

This is Part 1 of "An Airline Pilot's Life." Part 2 will be published on May 24, 2020. Here's the s… read more

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18. In the Sky: A Retired Captain Looks Back over Fifty-Nine Years

By: Jerry L. Farquhar

4.51

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

The airline world has changed dramatically in the fifty-six years since I entered it. Some changes … read more

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Cover of 80 Percent Luck, 20 Percent Skill: My Life as a WWII Navy Ferry Pilot by Ralph Alshouse

19. 80 Percent Luck, 20 Percent Skill: My Life as a WWII Navy Ferry Pilot

By: Ralph Alshouse

4.78

Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition

"My favorite part was when his wingmen told him he was trailing smoke, that somewhere in his airpla… read more

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20. Three Down and Locked: Memoir of a Naval Aviator

By: Larry C. Turner

4.22

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

Every year the U.S. Navy designates some 1,200 Naval Officers as Naval Aviators once they have succ… read more

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21. Uplift: A Pilot's Journey

By: Grant Corriveau

4.30

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

“I’m still a rookie second officer but even I know it’s not supposed to happen like this.” “The cap… read more

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22. Airline Pilot: A Day in the Life

By: Grant Corriveau

4.44

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

“This is the captain speaking…”  You’ve heard the announcements. But, have you ever wondered what’s… read more

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23. Aircrew Confidential: The Unauthorized Airline Chronicles

By: Chris Manno

3.32

Format: 148 pages, Kindle Edition

An Amazon #1 New Release from the author of "Best Non-Fiction of 2020" "An Airline Pilot's Life," h… read more

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Cover of Better Lucky Than Good : From Outlaw Biker to Airline Pilot, And Beyond (From Outlaw Biker to Airline Pilot and Beyond Book 1) by Dale Arenson

24. Better Lucky Than Good : From Outlaw Biker to Airline Pilot, And Beyond (From Outlaw Biker to Airline Pilot and Beyond Book 1)

By: Dale Arenson

4.63

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

Jump inside the cockpit of an airplane and take an exhilarating trip across the United States. With… read more

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25. Secrets from the Cockpit: Pilots Behaving Badly and other Flying Stories

By: Robert Schapiro

4.47

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

'A witty, sometimes heart-stopping, and always engrossing path from "boy pilot" to elite aviator.' … read more

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26. Tales From The Cockpit: Sometimes The Door Is Closed For A Reason!!

By: Desmon Butts

3.84

Format: 101 pages, Kindle Edition

Best selling author Captain Desmon Butts tells it like it is! From bush flying in Alaska to the Jun… read more

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27. A Cargo Pilot's Life- Tails from Corrosion Corner

By: Brett Lane

4.25

Format: 163 pages, Kindle Edition

This is a story how I got into aviation as a pilot, and the direction my career path took. I flew c… read more

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28. Shark Bait: The "Misadventures" of an Oceanic Ferry Pilot

By: James A. "JC" Creighton

4.34

Format: 679 pages, Kindle Edition

Shark The “Misadventures” of an Oceanic Ferry Pilot is the saga of the dangerous world of ferry p… read more

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29. The Lucky One (From Outlaw Biker to Airline Pilot and Beyond Book 2)

By: Dale Arenson

4.65

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

Still fresh on his path to reinventing himself as a pilot and inspired by his encounters with world… read more

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30. Kiwis Can Fly: A Career in Aviation

By: Jeremy Burfoot

4.29

Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition

If you're dreaming of a career in aviation, buckle up and get ready for an inspirational and exciti… read more

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31. Cloud Surfing: A 747 Jumbo Pilots View, Flying Stories, Scary, Sad and Funny

By: Bill Austen

4.53

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

Bill Austen had some scary experiences; it came with the job of being a pilot. Having something go … read more

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5 best-selling aviation books like A Cargo Pilot's Life- Tails from Corrosion Corner by Brett Lane

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GUTS 'N GUNSHIPS: What it was Really Like to Fly Combat Helicopters in Vietnam

Mark Garrison

3.97

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Ferry Pilot: Nine Lives Over the North Atlantic.

Kerry McCauley

4.52

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Cleared for Takeoff: Memoirs of an Air Traffic Controller

John R. "Rusty" Potter

4.18

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