For Chuck Hewitt has stumbled onto one of Stalin's best kept secrets. He is the "guest" of a Soviet fighter squadron attached to the 586th Fighter Air Regiment, an all-female regiment, which daily takes on the best pilots Hitler'sLuftwaffehas to offer - snaking across the battle-torn sk...
I know fighter planes, aviation, history, and Paris. I am not unmoved by a pretty face. I put it all on the printed page in sophisticated prose.
Other great aviation books include The First of the Few: Fighter Pilots of the First World War by Denis Winter and naval aviation classic, Feet Wet: Reflections of a Carrier Pilot by Paul Gillcrist. If you’re looking for additional books for professional flyers, try 50 Real-World Pilot Tip...
And do you wonder what it’s like up there with your hands and feet on the controls, doing all the things commercial pilots do? What about those military pilots who put themselves in harm’s way to protect the freedoms we enjoy? Have you ever fantasized about flying one of those magnific...
Fighter pilots unleash a Pearl Harbor-style attack; American veterans become low-tech insurgents; teenage hackers battle in digital playgrounds; Silicon Valley billionaires mobilize for cyber-war; and a serial killer carries out her own vendetta. Ultimately, victory will depend on blending the lessons...
The title of the novel is a line from aStephen Spender poem ‘The Truly Great’, a work that celebrates the individual that seeks greatness, glory and achievement even if the price is a life cut short. Aldridge no doubt considered the line apt for a novel about fighter pilots in wartime...
This takes what fighter pilots learned about executing in life and death scenarios and brings it to the corporate arena. This book took my confidence in execution to the next level through its frameworks and examples. I loved the depth and detail around creating 12-Point Future Pictures to comm...
It focuses on the legendary fighter pilots who operated under the Republic against the Empire. RELATED: The 10 Best Mandalorians In The Star Wars Universe The Squadron is of course an iconic piece of Star Wars love and this is a fantastic way to explore each of the members of the team, ...
In Forever Flying, we relive the thrills and danger Hoover continued to face as a civilian test pilot: testing the first jets to take off and land aboard aircraft carriers; flying bombing runs over North Korea; and demonstrating new planes for fighter pilots, who had to be warned not to at...
Reid’s plane may have been similarly victimized by the weather, or damaged by a German nightfighter, the scourge of all Allied bomber pilots. Reid was reported missing after his plane failed to return on Feb. 8, 1944, and “presumed dead” by December. In June 1945, Reid’s parents ...