I just wanted to let you folks know of a GREAT BOOK I just finished titled 'North Star Over My Shoulder' by Bob Buck. It is the biography of a TWA pilot who grew up with the airline industry, flying DC-2 and DC-3 aircraft in 1930 until he retired as a 747 captain. Extremely well written with some great pilot stories of how it really was!! Money and time well spent.Check Six !!!!!Rick

thanks, looks good.I just got it at the library today, thanks for the heads up

Read the sample pages on amazon.com and I just might have to get this book! Thanks for pointing it out :)Jason

Got it. Read it. Loved it.Thanks for the tip, Rick.Now it's time to jump into the seat of my DC-6Blair

Thanks for the great tip. I got it from my local library. Couldn't put it down last night. I started to search for other great aviation books. I found out that 'Fate is the Hunter' by Ernest Kellog Gann is supposed to be really good, I will try to find that one next. I would love other recomendations, I would like to read more about flying modern jets etc. but any good aviation stories would be great.

Check out Flying the Big Jets. It's by a retired British Airways pilot and gives a good general aviation background and then describes in detail a London to Boston flight aboard a Boeing 777. (An earlier edition was set aboard a 747)If you liked North Star, you'll love Fate is the Hunter. The two men, Buck and Gann, had very similar experiences flying as civilian pilots in Air Transport Command.