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Chris Wells · Guest

I've been looking for some good flying stories. A friend recommended
"The Reluctant Messiah", which I've yet to find. Can someone recommend
more, preferably written by a pilot & for pilots?

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Chris Wells

Al G · Guest

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Chris Wells · Guest

It's funny, today I found the "Reluctant Messiah" book & read it, then I
took out a book by Frank Tallman, "Flying the Old Planes" - and now I
see this post, and note that the forward is written by Ernest Gann.

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Ron Hardin · Guest

I carried a copy of ``The High and the Mighty'' crossing most of
the Pacific in company DC-6s in the 60s, but nobody noticed.

As an extremely bored kid stuck in the mountains for summer vacations
I read every book with an airplane in it from the local library. It's
amazing how much crap they put in about social relationships and stuff
that you have to wade through to get to the airplane parts.

(This mountain place had a short unattended airstrip that I'd think
about flying into and out of, ascending the mountains without the
necessity of any work. Years later I flew in and out a few times,
and the mountain part was completely uninteresting, a strange result.)

As a grown-up, I can't reproduce the interest in airplanes necessary
to read this stuff, or rather it changed to an interest in physics
rather than fantasized freedom. The social relationship parts are
still crap.

If you want to get to the meat of the stories, old Flying magazine
stories ``I learned about flying from that'' always had some nugget
of warning. Add girls and a destination and you have a novel for kids,
if they can wade through the girl part.

Example of interest today, a story about a commuter plane that crashed
in Texas year ago now, that turned out to be from stalling the
stabilizer. That's an interesting crash.

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Ron Hardin
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Gail · Guest

Biggles!?

;D

RST Engineering · Guest

The entire title is "Illusions: The Adventures Of A Reluctant Messiah" by
Richard Bach. At one time he wrote a monthly column for a now defunct
magazine and the best of those columns have been collected into a book
called "A Gift Of Wings". Excellent reading.

Google "Richard Bach" and see what pops up. He of late has been
concentrating on kid's books to the exclusion of the aviation stuff.

Met him at Oshkosh a few years ago and got him to autograph my copy of
Illusions. Told him it comforted me through three jobs and two wives and he
seemed to get a kick out of that.

Jim

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Gus Cabre · Guest

Not flying fiction, but the story of Flt Lt Geoffrey Wellum who flew during
the Battle of Britain: "First Light". I couldn't put it down until finished.
Highly recommended.

Gus
Coltishall, UK
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NW_Pilot · Guest

Take a look at these books, Great author if your nice he will personalize
(sign them) them for ya and give you a great deal $$$! These books are Very
entertaining for the independent non-institutionalized thinker's out there!
So if you don't mind a little foul language some grammar errors and really
good stories worth supporting a fellow pilot and author!

http://www.spikefly.com/crop.php

http://www.spikefly.com/ferry_pilot.php

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richieb · Guest

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