..so.. Read any good books lately?

[Alphajet_Enthusiast]

"escape zone" awesome book by sea harrier pilot about the falklands!  :)

[Woodlouse2002]

[quote]"escape zone" awesome book by sea harrier pilot about the falklands!

[Mynameisnemo]

just finished reading Flight Of The Old Dog by Dale Brown.... now going to start on the gigantic manual for the captain sim hercules

[FX]

Finished "1984"
Great book  :o

and just started "animal farm"
hope to finish it soon

[Boomtown Rat]

Finished Downfall awhile back, then followed with Robert Harris' "Archangel."  It's an excellent book centered in Moscow and the City of Archangel in Russia.  It has to do with Stalin and his secret diary.  Excellent read, i'd be lying if I said I wasn't depressed when it ended!

Currently read Soldat, which is about Siegfried Knappe (well, he's telling the story, but it is translated), a Wehrmacht soldier who fought in almost every major german campaign and got wounded as well.  He even fought in Berlin and stayed until May 1st where he surrendered to the Russians with Weidling and Co, and then spent five years in a Russian POW camp and then eventually getting to the west.  It also includes 16 pages of photos he smuggled into the west.  It starts with Berlin in April 1945, which is familiar territory for me (see: Fall of Berlin I read a few months ago).

[The Ruptured Duck]

"Flight of Passage" Rinker Buck

2 kids fly from NJ->Los Angeles in a Piper Cub in 1966

[PilotGonzo]

I reccommend anything by Hunter S Thompson.

Especially Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas and Fear and loathing on the campaign trail '72, every sentance he wrote was amazing.

[Mees]

i must the get on with the Harry Potter series

[C]

Balkans actually. We didn't lose any Harriers in the Falklands.

Sqn Ldr Bob Iveson would disagree when his Harrier was shot down at 100' @ 450kts!...

I think we lost a total of 9 or 10. 4 Gr.3 (3 to enemy ground fire, one engine failure*) and the others were SHARs (2 ground fire/SAM, 1 exploded after take off, 2 are thought collided whilst on a night CAP, and one fell off it's ship whilst waiting to take off)...

*It was forced landed by its pilot, who, 20 year later was to be Chief of the Air Staff...

What was amazing is that in 25 years of service, including a war against a not under equipped air force, the Sea Harrier never lost in air to air combat...

[PAY1829]

Have any of you guys read any books by John J. Nance?

I have read about 6 of his books, they all have aviation related themes and are very hard to put down once you start reading. I think the best one I have read was Pandora's Clock.

[Politically Incorrect]

Have any of you guys read any books by John J. Nance?

Yes I have all of his novels bery good, if you like those you may want to look for Tracon by Paul McElroy

Finished "1984"  
Great book  

Written in 1948 which is how he came about his title.

[lilley91]

read some awsome books called The Lazarus Vendetta by Robert Ludlum and Patrick Larkin, The Cassandra Compact by Robert Ludlum and Philip Shelby and The Altman Code by Robert Ludlum and Gayle Lynds

cheers
james

[gottoflynow]

All the Dale Brown books...they have airplanes, guns, and nuclear bombs... ...It keeps me happy...I especially like "The Flight Of The Old Dog"...Its my favorite book ever.

-gottoflynow

Edit: Just saw nemo read this too...how did you like it?

[Boomtown Rat]

Now reading "Kitchen Confidential" by Anthony Bourdain.

Yay!  ;D