Aviation Autobiographies: Difference between revisions

Only a single book is listed for each individual. The years listed are the date of publication of the first edition, as further revisions ''without additional input from the author'' are more likely to introduce errors or factual inaccuracies. However, if a work with significantly different content is published later it will be included instead, as it is expected that it will be more comprehensive due to covering a large span of the author's life. The chief method of distinguishing between a new work and a revision, new edition, or translation of an earlier copy is that a significantly different title is used. If the work was originally published in a non-English language, the English language title is listed first, followed by the foreign language title in parentheses.

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== Autobiographies ==

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|John Slessor||''The Central Blue: Recollections and Reflections''||1956

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|Saburō Sakai||''Samurai!''{{efn|Coauthored. There are [http://www.warbirdforum.com/wingsams.htm significant questions] regarding the authenticity of the book due to changes by the coauthor.}}||1957

|Donald Wilson||''Wooing Peponi: My Odyssey through Many Years''||1973

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|Arthur Lee (RAF officer)|Arthur Lee||''No Parachute: A Fighter Pilot in World War I''||1974

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|Igor Kaberov||''Swastika in the Gunsight (В прицеле свастика)''||1975

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|Charles Lamb (Royal Navy officer)|Charles Lamb||''War in a Stringbag''||1977

|Jean Batten||''Alone in the Sky''||1979

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|Wladek Gnyś||''First Kill: A Fighter Pilot's Autobiography''||1981

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|Robert Mason||''Chickenhawk''{{efn|The author published an additional book: ''Chickenhawk: Back in the World: Life After Vietnam'' in 1993.}}||1983

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|Duke Cunningham||''Fox Two: The Story of America's First Ace in Vietnam''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||1984

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|Gerhard Neumann||''Herman the German: Enemy Alien U.S. Army Master Sergeant''||1984

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|Peter Corley-Smith||''10,000 Hours: A Helicopter Pilot in the North''||1985

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|Alberto Briganti||''Beyond the Clouds the Serene: Memories of Forty Years of Flight and Adventure (Oltre le Nubi il Sereno: Ricordi di Quarant'anni di Volo e di Avventura)''||1988

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|Robert Lee Scott Jr.||''The Day I Owned the Sky''{{efn|An earlier memoir was published as ''God is My Co-Pilot''.}}||1988

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|Tex Johnson||''Tex Johnston: Jet-Age Test Pilot''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||1992

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|Lawrence A. Hyland||''Call Me Pat: The Autobiography of the Man Howard Hughes Chose to Lead Hughes Aircraft''||1993

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|Ben Rich||''Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||1994

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|Bob Hoover||''Forever Flying: Fifty Years of High-flying Adventures, From Barnstorming in Prop Planes to Dogfighting Germans to Testing Supersonic Jets''||1996

|Jeffrey Quill||''Spitfire: A Test Pilot's Story''||1998

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|James Anderson||''Arctic Bush Pilot: From Navy Combat to Flying Alaska's Northern Wilderness''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||2000

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|Frederick Libby||''Horses Don't Fly: A Memoir of World War I''||2000

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|John A. Clark||''An Eighth Air Force Combat Diary: Combat Missions Flown with the 100th Bomb Group, England 1944-1945''||2001

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|Robert K. Morgan||''The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle: Memoir of a WWII Bomber Pilot''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||2001

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|Louis Zamperini||''Devil at My Heels''{{efn|Coauthored.}}{{efn|A previous book of the same name was written with a different co-author and first published in 1956.}}||2001

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|Peter Masefield||''Flight Path: The Autobiography of Sir Peter Masefield''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||2002

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|Geoffrey Wellum||''First Light: The True Story of a Boy Who Became a Man in the War-Torn Skies above Britain''||2002

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|Donald L. Mallick||''[http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/pdf/88797main_kerosene.pdf Smell of Kerosene: A Test Pilot's Odyssey]''||2003

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|Rex Terpening||''Bent Props & Blow Pots''||2003

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|Bernard F. Fisher||''Beyond the Call of Duty: The Story of an American Hero''||2004

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|Chuck Gross||''Rattler One-Seven: A Vietnam Helicopter Pilot’s War Story''||2004

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|Colin Downes||''By the Skin of my Teeth: The Memoirs of an RAF Mustang Pilot in World War II and of Flying Sabres with USAF in Korea''||2005

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|Corky Meyer||''Corky Meyer's Flight Journal: A Test Pilot's Tales of Dodging Disasters Just in Time''{{efn|This may be a compilation of various articles published in the magazine ''Flight Journal''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Reinhold |first1=Herman |title=[Book Review] |journal=Air & Space Power Journal |date=Winter 2008 |volume=22 |issue=4 |pages=123–124 |url=http://www.airuniversity.af.edu/Portals/10/ASPJ/journals/Volume-22_Issue-1-4/2008_Vol22_No4.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Some Days You Should Stay in Bed |url=http://www.flightjournal.com/some-days-you-should-stay-in-bed |website=Flight Journal |access-date=16 January 2023 |date=18 July 2011}}</ref>}}||2005

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|Roy Franklin||''Island Bush Pilot: Founder of San Juan Airlines''||2006

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|Sam O. White||''Sam O. White, Alaskan: Tales of a Legendary Wildlife Agent and Bush Pilot''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||2006

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|Kenny Wayne Fields||''The Rescue of Streetcar 304: A Navy Pilot's Forty Hours on the Run in Laos''||2007

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|Holger Jorgensen||''Jorgy: The Life of Native Alaskan Bush Pilot and Airline Captain Holger "Jorgy" Jorgensen''||2007

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|Leland Snow||''Putting Dreams to Flight''||2008

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|Anna Yegorova||''Red Sky, Black Death: A Soviet Woman Pilot's Memoir of the Eastern Front''||2009

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|John Freeborn||''Tiger Cub: A 74 Squadron Fighter Pilot in World War II''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||2009

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|Bernard Fipp||''Triple Sticks: Tales of a Few Young Men in the 1960s''||2010

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|Albert J. DeGroote||''A Flight Through Life: An Aviator's Memoir''||2013

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|Robert F. Curtis||''Surprised at Being Alive: An Accidental Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam and Beyond''||2014

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|Kimber C. Turner||''Freight Dog: The Dark Side of Aviation''||2014

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|Ed Denny||''Hornet 33: Memoir of a Combat Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam''||2016

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|J. F. Langer||''From the Spitfire Cockpit to the Cabinet Office: The Memoirs of Air Commodore J F 'Johnny' Langer''||2016

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|Lew Jennings||''19 Minutes to Live: Helicopter Combat in Vietnam''||2017

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|G. F. Schreader||''Hognose Silent Warrior: The USAF's Airborne Intelligence War in the Final Air Campaigns of Vietnam''||2017

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|Norman Kleiss||''Never Call Me a Hero: A Legendary American Dive-Bomber Pilot Remembers the Battle of Midway''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||2017

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|Lynn Wyatt||''Memories from My Logbook: A Bush Pilot's Story''||2017

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|D. D. Smith||''Above Average: Naval Aviation the Hard Way''||2018

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|Dominique Prinet||''Flying to Extremes: Memories of a Northern Bush Pilot''||2020

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|Steve Ladd||''From F-4 Phantom to A-10 Warthog: Memoirs of a Cold War Fighter Pilot''||2020

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|David L. Porter||''Taking Fire!: Memoir of an Aerial Scout in Vietnam''||2020

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|Richard E. Miralles||''War and Fire: From Fighting in World War II to Fighting California Wild Fires''||2020

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|Denis Elliott||''From Orphan to High-Flyer''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||2021

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|Robert J. Gilliland||''Speed: The Life of a Test Pilot and Birth of an American Icon''||2021

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|Russell Pettis||''Mohawk Recon: Vietnam from Treetop Level with the 1st Cavalry, 1968-1969''||2021

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