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who's got a favorite reading list of helicopter/aviation related books they'd like to share?

a few of my Favorites:
1. Chickenhawk
2. 71 Lessons from the sky
3. 9 lives of a bush pilot
4. down to a sunless sea
5. wings over alaska
6. N4 down
7. (a few bell 47 Alaskan/Canadian books) the titles are escaping me...

not all are helicopter related and there's no order of fashion there.
i feel like Orv should write a book at this point with all his amazing posts!

Well.   Since you included "aviation" in general I'll throw in a couple of my "must reads".    Mine tend to drift towards the military/wartime "holy moly", genre!

As your list,  no particular order, just some memorable reads.

Fate is the Hunter-  Ernest Gann-   Some crazy stuff
Flying the Hump-  Otha Spencer--A bunch of books about this but I enjoyed this one.
Angel in the SKy- A kind of fascinating account of the founding of the Israeli Air force.   Imagine a Beach Bonanza Bomber? 
Sketches of a BlackCat.   hard to imagine the type of flying they did
Stuka Pilot-   Hans Rudel   This book puts you in the mud and fog with a legendary aircraft and pilot.
Wings of Adventure-  Dale Titler-   A Compilation of stories.   Picked this up at a yard sale years ago and found it pretty interesting.