What's your favourite aviation literature?

["Junior"]

Now this is a piece of cake, here's my top lot...

Winged Victory

"No Parachute"

and I'm going to throw in Alex Revell's effing brilliant history of 56 Sqn High in the Empty Blue, I know, I know, it's not a novel or memoir but it's a damn good piece of literature.

Rainbase, you really should read Winged Victory if you like Derek Robinson, I'd put money on the fact that he used it as inspiration for his novels.

[Laserlloyd]

I have a limited view on what I read but to give my input. I would like to list a couple of them.

1). "The Fokker Triplane" by Alex Imrie (The Dr.I Bible...)

2). "The Fokker Dr.I A Reappraisal" by Peter Grosz & A.E. Ferko (Air Enthusiast 8).

3). "Fokker Dr.I Triplane" by Paul Leaman

4). "The Many Deaths of the Red Baron" by Frank McGuire

5). "Fokker Dr.I Aces of World War 1", "Richthofen Circus" JG Nr.1" and Jagdgeschwader Nr. II" all by Greg Van Wyngarden.

I also enjoy all my research books by the vary talented Norman Franks and the insight of Peter Kilduff on MvR. Lots of other Articles in C&C and OTF like Dan-San Abbott "The Fokker Triplane in Service" (OTF vol.5 Nr.4).

Lloyd…

[Butch]

For the most evocative description of flying an airplane, read Gordon Taylor's short chapter in The Sky Beyond of his checkout in a Spitfire.
Pete

The Day The Red Baron Died - - - - - - - - Dale Titler

Up an' At 'Em - -- - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - Harold Hartney

Wings of Morning - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Thomas Childers (WW II)

Rickenbacker, His Own Story - - - - - - - - - -Captain Eddie Rickenbacker

The Sky Is Home - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - J. McCollister & Diann Ramsden

[Simba]

I've just finished re-reading Neville Shute's 'Round The Bend'. First published in 1951 and very much a book of its time, it's a fictional memoir of a British ground engineer who starts his aviation career with Alan Cobham's air circus in the 1930s and ends up running a cargo line in the Persian Gulf as sole owner and chief pilot. Nothing to do with the Great War, but I think it's Shute's finest novel and particularly relevant in these days of religious intolerance.

Read it. If you haven't got a lump in your throat when you read the last page, you've got no soul.

[dpolglaze]

Both "No Parachute" and "Open Cockpit" by A.G. Lee

Observer - Insall

Wind in the Wires - Grinnell-Milne

Green Balls - Bewsher

Those are just off the top of my head

Dan