Aviation Autobiographies
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Introduction
This page is based in large part on the aerospace section of the list of autobiographies Wikipedia page. Said section was entirely self-created, so its inclusion on this website is appropriate.
However, the content of this page may differ from the aforementioned article, as inclusion criteria (i.e. notability requirements) are not in place here. Furthermore, the decision was made to focus solely on individuals involved in atmospheric flight, and not spaceflight.
Autobiographies
| Author | Title | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Alberto Santos-Dumont | My Airships: The Story of My Life | 1904 |
| Manfred von Richthofen | The Red Fighter Pilot | 1917 |
| Billy Bishop | Winged Warfare | 1918 |
| James McCudden | Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps | 1919 |
| René Fonck | Mes Combats (My Fights) | 1919 |
| Richard E. Byrd | Skyward | 1928 |
| Clarence Chamberlin | Record Flights | 1928 |
| Frank Hawks | Speed | 1931 |
| Amelia Earhart | The Fun of It | 1933 |
| Duncan Grinnell-Milne | Wind in the Wires | 1933 |
| C. W. A. Scott | C. W. A. Scott's Book: The Life and Mildenhall-Melbourne Flight of C.W.A. Scott | 1934 |
| Beirne Lay Jr. | I Wanted Wings | 1937 |
| Frank Glasgow Tinker | Some Still Live | 1938 |
| Louise Thaden | High, Wide and Frightened | 1938 |
| Igor Sikorsky | The Story of the Winged-S | 1939 |
| Richard Hillary | The Last Enemy | 1940 |
| Beryl Markham | West with the Night | 1942 |
| Ted W. Lawson | Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo | 1943 |
| Guy Gibson | Enemy Coast Ahead | 1946 |
| Henry H. Arnold | Global Mission | 1949 |
| Claire Lee Chennault | Way of a Fighter: The Memoirs of Claire Lee Chennault | 1949 |
| George Kenney | General Kenney Reports: A Personal History of the Pacific War | 1949 |
| Hans-Ulrich Rudel | Trotzdem (Nevertheless)[a] | 1949 |
| Dick Grace | Visibility Unlimited | 1950 |
| William Bushnell Stout | So Away I Went! | 1951 |
| Pierre Clostermann | The Big Show (Le Grand Cirque) | 1951 |
| Hanna Reitsch | Flying is My Life (Fliegen, Mein Leben) | 1951 |
| Adolf Galland | The First and the Last | 1953 |
| Ernst Heinkel | Stormy Life (Stürmisches Leben) | 1953 |
| Heinz Knoke | I Flew for the Führer | 1953 |
| Nevil Shute | Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer | 1954 |
| Bill Bridgeman | The Lonely Sky | 1955 |
| Eino Luukkanen | Fighter Over Finland (Hävittäjälentäjänä Kahdessa Sodassa) | 1956 |
| Johnnie Johnson | Wing Leader | 1956 |
| John Slessor | The Central Blue: Recollections and Reflections | 1956 |
| Saburō Sakai | Samurai! | 1957 |
| Pappy Boyington | Baa Baa Black Sheep | 1958 |
| Robert S. Johnson | Thunderbolt! | 1958 |
| Alan Deere | Nine Lives | 1959 |
| Eric Brown | Wings on My Sleeve | 1961 |
| Geoffrey de Havilland | Sky Fever: The Autobiography of Sir Geoffrey de Havilland | 1961 |
| John Braham | Night Fighter | 1961 |
| Nancy Bird | Born to Fly | 1961 |
| Bud Mahurin | Honest John | 1962 |
| Curtis LeMay | Mission with LeMay: My Story | 1965 |
| Arthur Tedder | With Prejudice: The War Memoirs of Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Lord Tedder | 1966 |
| Eddie Rickenbacker | Rickenbacker: An Autobiography | 1967 |
| Benjamin Foulois | From the Wright Brothers to the Astronauts: The Memoirs of Benjamin D. Foulois | 1968 |
| George William Goddard | Overview: A Lifelong Adventure in Aerial Photography | 1969 |
| Francis Gary Powers | Operation Overflight: The U-2 Spy Pilot Tells His Story for the First Time | 1970 |
| Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev | The Aim of a Lifetime: The Story of Alexander Yakovlev, Designer of the YAK Fighter Plane | 1972 |
| Raymond Collishaw | Air Command: A Fighter Pilot's Story | 1973 |
| Donald Wilson | Wooing Peponi: My Odyssey through Many Years | 1973 |
| Arthur Lee | No Parachute: A Fighter Pilot in World War I | 1974 |
| Cecil Arthur Lewis | Never Look Back: An Attempt at Autobiography | 1974 |
| Igor Kaberov | В прицеле свастика (Swastika in the Gunsight) | 1975 |
| Charles Lamb | War in a Stringbag | 1977 |
| Alan Cobham | A Time to Fly | 1978 |
| Murray Peden | A Thousand Shall Fall | 1979 |
| Jean Batten | Alone in the Sky | 1979 |
| George Gay | Sole Survivor | 1980 |
| William R. Dunn | Fighter Pilot: The First American Ace of World War II | 1982 |
| Gerhard Neumann | Herman the German: Enemy Alien U.S. Army Master Sergeant | 1984 |
| Stanley Hooker | Not Much of an Engineer | 1985 |
| Al Mooney | The Al Mooney Story: They All Fly Through the Same Air | 1985 |
| Chuck Yeager | Yeager: An Autobiography | 1985 |
| Roald Dahl | Going Solo | 1986 |
| Haywood S. Hansell | The Strategic Air War Against Germany and Japan: A Memoir | 1986 |
| Jackie Cochran | Jackie Cochran: An Autobiography | 1987 |
| Robert Lee Scott Jr. | The Day I Owned the Sky[b] | 1988 |
| Fred Weick | From the Ground Up | 1988 |
| Hugh Dundas | Flying Start: A Fighter Pilot's War Years | 1989 |
| Kelly Johnson | Kelly: More Than My Share of It All | 1989 |
| Bud Anderson | To Fly and Fight | 1991 |
| Jimmy Doolittle | I Could Never Be So Lucky Again | 1991 |
| Gabby Gabreski | Gabby: A Fighter Pilot's Life | 1991 |
| Hajo Herrmann | Eagle's Wings | 1991 |
| Joe Foss | A Proud American: The Autobiography of Joe Foss | 1992 |
| Tex Johnson | Tex Johnston: Jet-Age Test Pilot | 1992 |
| Marion Eugene Carl | Pushing the Envelope: The Career of Fighter Ace and Test Pilot Marion Carl | 1994 |
| Ben Rich | Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed | 1994 |
| James V. Hartinger | From One Stripe to Four Stars | 1997 |
| Paul Tibbets | Return of The Enola Gay | 1998 |
| Jeffrey Quill | Spitfire: A Test Pilot's Story | 1998 |
| Frederick Libby | Horses Don't Fly: A Memoir of World War I | 2000 |
| Robert K. Morgan | The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle: Memoir of a WWII Bomber Pilot | 2001 |
| Clayton Kelly Gross | Live Bait: WWII Memories of an Undefeated Fighter Ace | 2006 |
| Joe Sutter | 747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation | 2006 |
| Leland Snow | Putting Dreams to Flight | 2008 |
| Anna Yegorova | Red Sky, Black Death: A Soviet Woman Pilot's Memoir of the Eastern Front | 2009 |
| Mitsuo Fuchida | For That One Day: The Memoirs of Mitsuo Fuchida, the Commander of the Attack on Pearl Harbor | 2011 |
| Norman Kleiss | Never Call Me a Hero: A Legendary American Dive-Bomber Pilot Remembers the Battle of Midway | 2017 |