YA books on planes and flying

Both fiction and nonfiction.

Grandson has already identified Stick and Rudder and Little America: Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic the Flight to the South Pole as titles he wants.

I’m going to introduce him to Richard Bach.

The Flambards trilogy.

Code Name Verity is my favorite, although all of Elizabeth Wein's women aviator books are good.

Aviation: a Smithsonian Guide
Cleared for Takeoff: the Ultimate Book of Flight by Rowland White

>4 Hope_H: I picked up a different Smithsonian Guide this weekend second hand - From our earliest attempts at flight to tomorrow’s advanced designs

Roald Dahl, Going Solo

My dad is into flying so this is a great topic for me to follow too. Chased some of the above and led me to Flight of Passage, which sounds great but comes with a language warning. How old is the grandson?

>6 Cecrow: He’s 12. This new passion in so much more welcome than his last - true crime and the psychology of serial killers.

This jogged my memory about a book I read as a kid, which tells the story of a young person (I don't even recall their gender), who gets involved in soaring as a sport. I believe Disney made a live-action program out of it. I can't recall the title or author, but maybe that's enough information to jog someone else's memory better.

Survival in a plane -- children's/young adult fiction
https://www.librarything.com/list/630/all/Survival-in-a-plane-childrens%25252Fyo...

Survival, plane crash -- children's/young adult fiction
https://www.librarything.com/list/561/all/Survival-plane-crash-childrens%25252Fy...

He might like Ploesti. I read it when I was 12.
It is the history of the low level air raid on the Romanian oil fields during WWII.

>2 konallis: Edge of the Cloud is the most aeroplane- y one in that series - it's book 2 - but Will Russell spends most of Flambards (book 1) trying to construct a manned biplane out of balsa wood. So good.

Can I put in a word for a tween space opera called Mars Evacuees most of which is a road trip across Mars in a falling-apart flying vehicle. Lots of duct tape and heroics and friendship themes

>12 nessreader: Yes you may! That sounds like something I would enjoy.

Thanks to other contributors too!