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what do you read?

W. Bleddyn said:
The list would be tremendous lol

Currently I am re-reading Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series. I read them all about 7 - 8 years ago. Up to book 6 now. Beyond question the most entertaining novels I have ever read.
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I agree! I read them all.... great series. I hated to finish them.

By the way if anyone is interested, my set is for sale.
 
A 2nd For Fate is the Hunter....and....

"Air Vagabonds" by A. Vallone. Single engine (GA) ferrying trans Atlantic and Pacific and over hostile territory. An exciting read!

I would also recommend Chuck Yeager's biography. Another one, but in the war time / helicopter genre is "Chickenhawk" by Robert Mason. Lots of good aviation books out there.
 
The Last book i read cover to cover was "America's Hundred Thousand". Currently I'm studying "Spitfire Mark 9 & 16 Engineered". Its a pretty Amazing book since you can basically buy the book and build he airplane from it and have everything to exact specificaions.. Wonderful Book..

Other books of Interest..
Snow Crash
Anything Star Trek
Anything Star Wars
Assorted Manga

Edit: An interesting Link you all might enjoy http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_n...igital-text&field-keywords=aircraft&x=11&y=21
 
Books by content:

- Autobiography of a Fw-190 driver
- One of Edward H. Sims' works about a RAF-USAAF-Luftwaffe comparison
- Interflug
- LSK of the NVA
- Air combat from 1910s to the 1970s

All are in german and I'm too lazy to find out the original titles or translate 'em.


Other than that, I love blogs about airline business or aviation trivia.

Hint: Google Books has a few aviation related ones available for reading online.
 
jankees said:
I just finished "Jimmiy Stewart, Bomber Pilot" by Starr Smith, quite a story.
As far as I know, one of the few men in the military that rose from private to full colonel during the war..
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my favorite person in so many ways - you could look for many lifetimes and not find anyone of such good character.

Jimmy Stewart, may he Rest
 
Been reading a fair amount of books on conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa lately.

Edit: Unrelated to the above but, I received this book as a present last year and had a great time reading it (See Screenshot). It was a little slow for me in the beginning but it gets pretty interesting towards the end.

Regards,
Stratobat
 
wilycoyote4 said:
What's a dinner party? Is it like a potluck? Invited myself to my birthday party but forgot about it.

Any book about the SR-71, suggest Richard Grahams latest, very detailed.
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Have you read the Mach 1 books on the sr-71 Sled Driver and The Untouchables by Shul and Watson? very interesting and great pictures as well. I bought both signed copies back in '95, a real good read written by the pilots themselves.
 
got'em

dharris said:
Have you read the Mach 1 books on the sr-71 Sled Driver and The Untouchables by Shul and Watson? very interesting and great pictures as well. I bought both signed copies back in '95, a real good read written by the pilots themselves.
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[MARQUEE]Yes, great reads and photos[/MARQUEE]
Got a Shul signed book, unique reads.
 
wilycoyote4 said:
[MARQUEE]Yes, great reads and photos[/MARQUEE]
Got a Shul signed book, unique reads.
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I have all of the books written by Richard Graham, and I've always been curious about the Shul books. I never bought any because last time I checked they were out of print and the cheapest I could find was around $100. Do they offer anything that the Richard Graham books do not? I always wanted to know but never wanted to fork over the money for one.
 
argo147 said:
I have all of the books written by Richard Graham, and I've always been curious about the Shul books. I never bought any because last time I checked they were out of print and the cheapest I could find was around $100. Do they offer anything that the Richard Graham books do not? I always wanted to know but never wanted to fork over the money for one.
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My wife bought me Sled Driver. I know she spent a good amount of her personal spending money on it, and to be honest, good a read as it was, I was quite let down, knowing how hard she saved her coffee/spending money to get it for me. She spent over $100 - and it wasn't even for one of those fancy, signed, leather-bound jobbies. Good photos, and a good summary of the missions - but to be honest, for a third the cost, Paul Crickmore's "Lockheed Blackbird" is (IMHO) 10 times the book in terms of long-term value. A close second is Richard Graham's "Flying the Blackbird". I "read" (mostly pictures) Schul's book in less than two hours. It took me almost two months to digest the two aforementioned books together. I can't argue with the pleasure time/cost economics of that equation.

That said, if $100+ for rare Blackbird photos makes sense to you, then it's worth it. But for detailed historical and technical analysis, you could buy Crickmore's and Graham's books - half the cost, and the difference buys a lot of tea, coffee, hootch, or whatever else accompanies you when you read.... :)

Just food for thought.

dl
 
I agree with delta_lima completely.

I haven't checked ebay or Amazon for these books for a long time so I'll see what's there out of curiosity. Crickmore did update his big book twice, I think, and the last is the 3rd edition, again I think, bigger, more in it. Graham has more than one book out.

You might try bookstores and google as well.
 
You don't allow PMs

argo147 said:
...............I've always been curious about the Shul books. I never bought any because last time I checked they were out of print and the cheapest I could find was around $100. Do they offer anything that the Richard Graham books do not? I always wanted to know but never wanted to fork over the money for one.
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If you'll check Amazon dot com , seaching for Brian Shul, you'll find several examples of The Untouchables for well under $100 with shipping. They are used. http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-list...&ie=UTF8&qid=1297292960&sr=1-2&condition=used

However, I can only try to help, your decision is what matters.

It is not my top reference book but to a collector it is not common.
 
I'll probably pass on that for the time being, thanks for the info though. Last time I spent that much on a book (Jane's Fighting Ships 07-08) my wife wasn't too happy :violent: So I'll stick to Mr. Grahams great books and my SR-71 and YF-12 flight manuals.
 
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