Pilots' Directions: The Transcontinental Airway and Its History, William M. Leary (Hardcover) $19.95
A history of the route and the Post Office's Air Mail Service together with the official Pilot's directions, telegraphic descriptions of the NY-Chicago- Omaha, Cheyenne, Salt Lake City, San Francisco route.
Fate is The Hunter, Ernest K. Gann (Paperback) $11.20
Fate is The Hunter, Ernest K. Gann (Audio/Books on Tape) $64.00
This fascinating, well-told autobiography is a complete refutation of the comfortable cliche that 'man is master of his fate.' As far as pilots are concerned, fate (or death) is a hunter who is constantly in pursuit of them.
Airman's Odessy, Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Paperback) $12.00
Night Flight; Wind, Sand and Stars; and Flight to Arras collected in one volume. With a new introduction by Richard Bach.
Flight of Passage, Rinker Buck (Paperback) $10.36
In 1966, the 15-year-old author and his 17-year-old brother flew across the United States in a Piper Cub. This book recalls their adventure, from conceiving the idea, persuading their father to allow it, preparing the airplane, and taking the trip itself.
Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into the Heart of America, Stephen Coonts (Paperback) $11.96
The bestselling author of Flight of the Intruder and Under Siege combines his narrative talent with his love of flying to take readers on an amazing, three-month, 48-state journey into the heart of the American landscape--and into the soul of its people.
One Pilot's Log: the Career of E.L. "Slonnie" Sloniger, Jerrold Sloniger (Hardcover) $34.95
Between 1917 and 1955, E.L. "Slonnie" Sloniger was a WWI fighter pilot, a barnstormer, a test pilot, a racer, an acrobatic pilot, and a commercial pilot. Here, Fate Is the Hunter's Old Number One tells the story in his own words, as recorded by his son.
China Pilot: Flying For Chiang and Chennault, Felix Smith (Hardcover) $24.95
A true aviation pioneer, Felix Smith was in the cockpit from the beginning and saw it all. With an appreciation of the eccentric and an eye for the exotic, Smith brings to life the colorful, courageous people who kept Civil Air Transport aloft in Asia despite its reputation as "the world's most shot-at airline."
North To the Orient, Anne Morrow Lindbergh (Paperback) $8.00
Anne Morrow Lindbergh takes us along for the trip that she and her husband, Charles Lindbergh, made flying in their Lockheed Sirius from New York to China in search of navigable airways. Anne's writing allows us to experience the adventures and people along the way as well some of the informal interaction between her and her normally very private husband.
The Spirit of St. Louis, Charles Lindbergh (Paperback) $11.96
In his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1953 account, Lindbergh carries the reader from his barnstorming days of youthful vision to his world-famous flight that would change history. This exciting and eloquent account brings to life the energy and foresight that inspired Lindbergh to brave the Atlantic in a single-engine plane.
Illustrated West With the Night, Beryl Markham (Hardcover) $29.95
Beryl Markham was the first woman in Africa, where she grew up, to earn a pilot's license, and she went on to be the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic. She was also a horse breeder, an adventurer and a writer of exquisite sensibilities. With elegant prose she describes her life in Africa and in the clouds in this beautifully illustrated reissue of her 1940s classic.