Books

Just published is “You Can Afford To Be A Pilot,” a new book from CFI/CTT Timothy O’Connor. The book aims to give students the knowledge and power to break down the most common barriers to completing a pilot certificate, including expense, poor instructors, lack of procedural support, and more. “You Can Afford to be a Pilot” takes […]

Now available is “The Spirit of Adventure: Touring Europe in an Open Cockpit Biplane (Volume 1)” by Michael McCafferty, the story of the author’s summer-long experience-of-a-lifetime, flying his open-cockpit biplane through 11 European countries. Flying, friends, food and fun are told as it happened in daily e-mails all reproduced here, with new materials explaining the […]

A history of aviation spanning 93 years at the Conway Arkansas Municipal Airport (Cantrell Field) has recently been published. The authors, Robert Hoyt, Al Hiegel, Stuart Hoyt, and Harrell Clendenin, have long ties to aviation and the Conway Airport. The bound paper-back book contains 238 pages of more than 72,000 words of narrative and is […]

Ace Abbott chronicles his aviation adventures in his new book, “The Rogue Aviator: in the Back Alleys of Aviation.” The book details the author’s adventuresome aviation career that included working for 25 employers. The story travels from five-star hotels and restaurants in Paris to greasy cargo ramps and South American jails. Ace’s aviation career began […]

Did you know that Steve McQueen was a pilot who flew antique planes? That and more is revealed in a new biography on the star, “Steve McQueen: The Life and Legend of a Hollywood Icon,” by Marshall Terrill. Featuring hundreds of interviews and research, Terrill reveals new details about the star’s life from his childhood, […]

Author Jeremiah D. Jackson has released a new book, “The Flight of the Feral Chihuahua: In Pursuit of the Round-Trip Transcontinental Speed Record.” The Flight of the Feral Chihuahua is a true story about the effort, challenges, and fears behind setting a new round-trip transcontinental speed record in a small airplane. Here, Jackson retells his […]

Featuring a collection of rare photographs and previously untold stories, “Lucky Me: The Life and Flights of Veteran Aviator Clay Lacy” reveals how one of the most versatile pilots in the history of powered flight helped revolutionize the aviation industry. From the time he was a young boy growing up in the farmland of Wichita, […]

Slated to be released Sept. 1 is “Squawk 7700,” an aviation autobiography by Peter Buffington, which chronicles his adventure into the world of aviation to achieve a professional airline pilot career. From student pilot at age 15, to flight instructor, to nighttime cargo pilot, and finally to first officer aboard the ATR 42 and ATR […]

Douglas Wellman’s new book “Boxes: The Secret Life of Howard Hughes” has been released and is available at major online book retailers. The book tells the tale of Hughe’s secret life under the assumed identity of Verner “Nik” Nicely, from the point of view of his wife, Eva McLelland. Her discovery that her eccentric Midwestern […]