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“The Pleasure of their Company”

February 18, 2021 By Practical Aeronautics Team

Readings list are in vogue. I found one tonight written many years ago by Richard Bach, a gifted aviation writer, and I don’t think he will mind if I share it here.

A Gift of Wings book cover

No Echo in the Sky, Harold Penrose
The Last Enemy, Richard Hillary (also published under the title Falling Through Space)
England is my Village, FltLt James Liewellen Rhys
A Sky of My Own, Molly Bernheim
Over to You, Roald Dahl
Dot Lemon, One-One
Alone over the Tasman Sea, Sir Francis Chicester
The Airman’s World, Gill Robb Wilson
The Spirit of St. Louis, Charles Lindbergh
North to the Orient, Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The Rainbow and the Rose, Nevil Shute
Round the Bend, Nevil Shute
Pastoral, Nevil Shute
Song of the Sky, Guy Murchie
Blaze of Noon, Ernest K. Gann
Fate is the Hunter, Ernest K. Gann
Wind, Sand, and Stars, Antoine de St Exupery
The Little Prince, Antoine de St Exupery

Mark Jones, Instructor, Practical Aeronautics

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Aviation, Aviation Books

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