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*[https://archive.org/details/asoldiersky00campgoog/page/n5/mode/2up ''A Soldier of the Sky''] by Captain George F Campbell, Royal Flying Corps. 1918 Archive.org. Also available [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000440235 HathiTrust Digital Library].
*[https://archive.org/details/shortflightswith00spinrich ''Short Flights With the Cloud Cavalry''] by "Spin" [1918] Archive.org. Elsewhere it is stated the author was Lieutenant G. E. Thomson, the Records Officer of 46 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps , who dedicated the book to his Commanding Officer, Philip Babington, ("Pip Beer" on the Dedication Page).<ref> Resurgam13. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/61344-rarest-book/?do=findComment&comment=2761527 Rarest book?] ''Great War Forum'' 26 April 2019. Retrieved 26 April 2019.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/flyingfuryfiveye0000mccu ''Flying Fury : Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps''] by James McCudden VC, 2000 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. This is a reprint, with some extra content, of ''Flying Fury'' 1930, which in turn was a reprint, with some extra content of ''Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps'' 1918. The [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005891834 1918 edition] is available HathiTrust Digital Library, available in areas such as North America, and also [https://books.google.com.au/books?vid=Wisc:89100003748 Google Books], same viewing conditions.
→In the Air: Re-order
:[https://archive.org/details/billybishopvc0000math ''Billy Bishop, VC''] by William D Mathieson 1989 Archive.org Lending Library.
:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Bishop Billy Bishop] Wikipedia . He was the top Canadian ace of the war.
*[https://archive.org/details/cihm_98187 ''The Royal Flying Corps in the War''] by "Wing Adjutant" 1918 Archive.org. The author is catalogued as W. T. (Wilfrid Theodore) Blake. Sketches, some personal experiences. Digitised microfiche.
:[https://archive.org/details/planetalesfromsk00blak/page/n5 ''Plane Tales from the Skies''] by "Wing Adjutant" [Wilfrid Theodore Blake] 1918 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/asoldiersky00campgoog/page/n5/mode/2up ''A Soldier of the Sky''] by Captain George F Campbell, Royal Flying Corps. 1918 Archive.org. Also available [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000440235 HathiTrust Digital Library].
*[https://archive.org/details/cihm_80756 ''Above the Battle''] by Vivian Drake 1918 Archive.org. Royal Flying Corps. Digitised microfiche.
*[https://archive.org/details/flyingfuryfiveye0000mccu ''Flying Fury : Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps''] by James McCudden VC, 2000 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. This is a reprint, with some extra content, of ''Flying Fury'' 1930, which in turn was a reprint, with some extra content of ''Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps'' 1918. The [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005891834 1918 edition] is available HathiTrust Digital Library, available in areas such as North America, and also [https://books.google.com.au/books?vid=Wisc:89100003748 Google Books], same viewing conditions.
*[https://archive.org/details/shortflightswith00spinrich ''Short Flights With the Cloud Cavalry''] by "Spin" [1918] Archive.org. Elsewhere it is stated the author was Lieutenant G. E. Thomson, the Records Officer of 46 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps , who dedicated the book to his Commanding Officer, Philip Babington, ("Pip Beer" on the Dedication Page).<ref> Resurgam13. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/61344-rarest-book/?do=findComment&comment=2761527 Rarest book?] ''Great War Forum'' 26 April 2019. Retrieved 26 April 2019.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/outwittinghunmye00obriuoft/page/n9 ''Outwitting the Hun : my Escape from a German Prison Camp''] by Lieut. Pat O'Brien, Royal Flying Corps. 1918 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/outwitting_the_hun_1304_librivox LibriVox audio version] Archive.org. The author was an American who had initially joined a group training in Canada as Royal Flying Corps officers.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027820202/page/n9/mode/2up ''The American Spirit; Letters of Briggs Kilburn Adams, Lieutenant of the Royal Flying Corps''] 1918 Archive.org. Most of the letters cover his time in training, in Canada from August 1917, and England from January 1918. He arrived in France 1 March 1918 and died soon afterwards 14 March 1918.
*[https://archive.org/details/airservicemedica00unit ''Air Service Medical Manual''] by [USA] War Department: Air Service. Division of Military Aeronautics, Washington, D.C 1918. Archive.org. With many photographs.
*[https://archive.org/details/aviatorsfieldboo00blrich ''An Aviator’s Field Book, being the Field Reports of Oswald Bölcke, from August 1, 1914 to October 28, 1916'']. Translated from the German by Robert Reynold Hirsch 1917 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Boelcke Oswald Boelcke] (Wikipedia). German flying ace.
*[https://archive.org/details/redbattleflyer00rich ''The Red Battle Flyer''] by Captain Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen . Translated by T Ellis Barker 1918 Archive.org. UK title: ''The Red Air Fighter''.(1918) [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24572 ''Der Rote Kampfflieger''] 1917 Gutenberg.org. There was a 1933 German edition with additional text, originally censored, for which there was a 1969 English translation by Peter Kilduff ''The Red Baron''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_von_Richthofen Manfred von Richthofen] (Wikipedia). German flying ace.
:[https://archive.org/details/redknightofgerma00gibb ''The Red Knight of Germany : the story of Baron von Richthofen, Germany's great war bird''] by Floyd Gibbons. 1959 “new illustrated abridgement”, first published 1927. Elsewhere the author is stated to have been war correspondent with the ''Chicago Tribune''. Archive.org Lending Library.
