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|Donald Wilson||''Wooing Peponi: My Odyssey through Many Years''||1973
|Donald Wilson||''Wooing Peponi: My Odyssey through Many Years''||1973
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|Jan Zumbach||''Mister Brown''{{efn|Published in English as ''On Wings of War: My Life as a Pilot Adventurer''.}}||1973
|Jan Zumbach||''Mister Brown''{{efn|Published in English as ''On Wings of War: My Life as a Pilot Adventurer'' in 1975.}}||1973
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|Arthur Lee (RAF officer)|Arthur Lee||''No Parachute: A Fighter Pilot in World War I''||1974
|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
|Igor Kaberov||''Swastika in the Gunsight (В прицеле свастика)''||1975
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|Alexander Lippisch||''A Triangle Flies: The Development of Delta Aircraft Until 1945 (Ein Dreieck Fliegt: Die Entwicklung der Delta-Flugzeuge bis 1945)''{{efn|1=Published in English as ''The Delta Wing: History and Development'' in 1981.}}||1976
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|Charles Lamb (Royal Navy officer)|Charles Lamb||''War in a Stringbag''||1977
|Charles Lamb (Royal Navy officer)|Charles Lamb||''War in a Stringbag''||1977
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|Otha C. Spencer||''Flying the Hump: Memories of an Air War''||1994
|Otha C. Spencer||''Flying the Hump: Memories of an Air War''||1994
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|Melvin N. Westwood||''Contract Military Air Transport From the Ground Up''||1995
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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
|Bob Hoover||''Forever Flying: Fifty Years of High-flying Adventures, From Barnstorming in Prop Planes to Dogfighting Germans to Testing Supersonic Jets''||1996
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|Jeffrey Quill||''Spitfire: A Test Pilot's Story''||1998
|Jeffrey Quill||''Spitfire: A Test Pilot's Story''||1998
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|David Kirk Vaughan||''Runway Visions: An American C-130 Pilot's Memoir of Combat Airlift Operations in Southeast Asia, 1967-1968''||1998
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|Max Karant||''Max Karant: My Flights and Fights''{{efn|Coauthored, published posthumously.}}||1999
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|Richard C. Kirkland||''Tales of a War Pilot''{{efn|1=The author published at least two additional nonfiction books: ''MASH Angels: Tales of an Air-Evac Helicopter Pilot in the Korean War''  and ''Tales of a Helicopter Pilot''. A third, ''War Pilot: True Tales of Combat and Adventure'', may be a republication of ''Tales of a War Pilot''.}}||1999
|Richard C. Kirkland||''Tales of a War Pilot''{{efn|1=The author published at least two additional nonfiction books: ''MASH Angels: Tales of an Air-Evac Helicopter Pilot in the Korean War''  and ''Tales of a Helicopter Pilot''. A third, ''War Pilot: True Tales of Combat and Adventure'', may be a republication of ''Tales of a War Pilot''.}}||1999
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|Michael J. Novosel||''Dustoff: The Memoir of an Army Aviator''||1999
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|James Anderson||''Arctic Bush Pilot: From Navy Combat to Flying Alaska's Northern Wilderness''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||2000
|James Anderson||''Arctic Bush Pilot: From Navy Combat to Flying Alaska's Northern Wilderness''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||2000
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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
|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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|James Joyce||''Pucker Factor 10: Memoir of a U.S. Army Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam''||2003
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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
|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
|Rex Terpening||''Bent Props & Blow Pots''||2003
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|Randy Zahn||''Snake Pilot: Flying the Cobra Attack Helicopter in Vietnam''{{efn|Based on audiotapes.}}||2003
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|Bernard F. Fisher||''Beyond the Call of Duty: The Story of an American Hero''||2004
|Bernard F. Fisher||''Beyond the Call of Duty: The Story of an American Hero''||2004
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|Sam O. White||''Sam O. White, Alaskan: Tales of a Legendary Wildlife Agent and Bush Pilot''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||2006
|Sam O. White||''Sam O. White, Alaskan: Tales of a Legendary Wildlife Agent and Bush Pilot''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||2006
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|Jack Broughton||''Rupert Red Two: A Fighter Pilot's Life from Thunderbolts to Thunderchiefs''{{efn|1=The author wrote two previous books: ''Thud Ridge'' in 1968 and ''Going Downtown: The War Against Hanoi and Washington'' in 1988.}}||2007
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|Kenny Wayne Fields||''The Rescue of Streetcar 304: A Navy Pilot's Forty Hours on the Run in Laos''||2007
|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
|Holger Jorgensen||''Jorgy: The Life of Native Alaskan Bush Pilot and Airline Captain Holger "Jorgy" Jorgensen''||2007
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|Ed Rasimus||''Palace Cobra: A Fighter Pilot in the Vietnam Air War''{{efn|1=The author published a previous book, a prequel: ''When Thunder Rolled: An F-105 Pilot over North Vietnam'' in 2003.}}||2007
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|Richard Hutchings||''Special Forces Pilot: A Flying Memoir of the Falklands War''||2008
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|Leland Snow||''Putting Dreams to Flight''||2008
|Leland Snow||''Putting Dreams to Flight''||2008
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|Albert J. DeGroote||''A Flight Through Life: An Aviator's Memoir''||2013
|Albert J. DeGroote||''A Flight Through Life: An Aviator's Memoir''||2013
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|Geoffrey Leeming||''From Borneo to Lockerbie: Memoirs of a RAF Helicopter Pilot''||2013
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|David E. Tavel||''Hell in the Heavens: The Saga of a WWII Bomber Pilot''{{efn|Coauthored, based on diary entries.}}||2013
|David E. Tavel||''Hell in the Heavens: The Saga of a WWII Bomber Pilot''{{efn|Coauthored, based on diary entries.}}||2013
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|Bill Collier||''The Adventures of a Helicopter Pilot: Flying the H-34 helicopter in Vietnam for the United States Marine Corps''||2014
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|Robert F. Curtis||''Surprised at Being Alive: An Accidental Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam and Beyond''||2014
|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
|Kimber C. Turner||''Freight Dog: The Dark Side of Aviation''||2014
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|Mark Garrison||''Guts 'N Gunships: What it was Really Like to Fly Combat Helicopters in Vietnam''||2015
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|Ed Denny||''Hornet 33: Memoir of a Combat Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam''||2016
|Ed Denny||''Hornet 33: Memoir of a Combat Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam''||2016
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|Z. W. Kowalewski||''A Sailor's Life In World War II''||2016
|Z. W. Kowalewski||''A Sailor's Life in World War II''||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
|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
|Lew Jennings||''19 Minutes to Live: Helicopter Combat in Vietnam''||2017
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|Bill Kirkness||''RAF Liberators over Burma: Flying with 159 Squadron''{{efn|Coauthored, published posthumously.}}||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
|G. F. Schreader||''Hognose Silent Warrior: The USAF's Airborne Intelligence War in the Final Air Campaigns of Vietnam''||2017
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|James Paul Segel||''Flying The Hump To China, The Early Days''{{efn|Coauthored, published posthumously.}}||2017
|James Paul Segel||''Flying The Hump To China, The Early Days''{{efn|Coauthored, published posthumously.}}||2017
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|Victor Vizcarra||''Thud Pilot: A Pilot's Account of Early F-105 Combat in Vietnam''||2017
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|Lynn Wyatt||''Memories from My Logbook: A Bush Pilot's Story''||2017
|Lynn Wyatt||''Memories from My Logbook: A Bush Pilot's Story''||2017
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|Tom Faulkner||''Flying with the Fifteenth Air Force: A B-24 Pilot's Missions from Italy during World War II''||2018
|Tom Faulkner||''Flying with the Fifteenth Air Force: A B-24 Pilot's Missions from Italy during World War II''||2018
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|David R. Honodel||''The Phantom Vietnam War: An F-4 Pilot's Combat over Laos''||2018
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|D. D. Smith||''Above Average: Naval Aviation the Hard Way''||2018
|D. D. Smith||''Above Average: Naval Aviation the Hard Way''||2018
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|Tammie Jo Shults||''Nerves of Steel: How I Followed My Dreams, Earned My Wings, and Faced My Greatest Challenge''||2019
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|Terry L. Thorsen||''Phantom in the Sky: A Marine's Back Seat View of the Vietnam War''||2019
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|Dominique Prinet||''Flying to Extremes: Memories of a Northern Bush Pilot''||2020
|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
|Steve Ladd||''From F-4 Phantom to A-10 Warthog: Memoirs of a Cold War Fighter Pilot''||2020
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|Fleet S. Lentz||''A Backseat View from the Phantom: A Memoir of a Marine Radar Intercept Officer in Vietnam''||2020
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|David L. Porter||''Taking Fire!: Memoir of an Aerial Scout in Vietnam''||2020
|David L. Porter||''Taking Fire!: Memoir of an Aerial Scout in Vietnam''||2020
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|Russell Pettis||''Mohawk Recon: Vietnam from Treetop Level with the 1st Cavalry, 1968-1969''||2021
|Russell Pettis||''Mohawk Recon: Vietnam from Treetop Level with the 1st Cavalry, 1968-1969''||2021
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|Ed Cobleigh||''And I Lived to Tell the Tales: The Life of a Fighter Pilot''||2022
|Chris Burwell||''Nine Lives: The Compelling Memoir of a Cold War Harrier Pilot''||2022
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|Ed Cobleigh||''And I Lived to Tell the Tales: The Life of a Fighter Pilot''{{efn|1=The author wrote a previous book: ''War for the Hell of It'' in 2005.}}||2022
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|Rick Gehweiler||''Pop a Smoke: Memoir of a Marine Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam''||2022
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