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The following is a list of helicopter-related books that I own. I've even read most of them.
How to Fly Helicopters (2ed)
Flying the Helicopter
Contains a Hughes 500 Flight Manual
Learning to Fly Helicopters
Student Guide to Helicopter Flight Maneuvers
Instructor's Guide to Helicopter Flight Maneuvers
Basic Helicopter Handbook (AC 61-13B)
Aeronautical Decision Making for Helicopter Pilots
Rotary Wing Flight
Rotary Wing Flight: TM 1-260
Private Pilot Helicopter Rating
The Helicopter Pilot's Manual
Helicopter Aerodynamics
More Helicopter Aerodynamics
Even More Helicopter Aerodynamics
Principles of Helicopter Flight
Principles of Helicopter Flight
Dynamics of Helicopter Flight
Helicopter Theory
The Foundations of Helicopter Flight
Rotary-Wing Aerodynamics
Aerodynamics of the Helicopter
Helicopter Maintenance
Chickenhawk
Arguably the best written first-person account of helicopter warfare in Vietnam.
Choppers: The Heroic Birth of Helicopter Warfare
Hunter-Killer Squadron: Aero-Weapons, Aero-Scouts, Aero-Rifles, Vietnam 1965-1972
Flying the Edge: In the Cockpit with Navy Test Pilots
Helicopters in Combat: The First Fifty Years
Military Helicopters
Military Helicopters
The Helicopter
Pictures and narrative of numerous military and some civilian helicopters.
Lift
Mostly narrative of the various uses of helicopters. It includes a great picture of a Boeing Vertol 107 pulling a hover barge, with the helicopter in what looks like a 60 degree nose-down attitude (the text indicates the helo got down as far as 35 degrees).
Hunting Lost Mines by Helicopter
Helicopter Pilot Reports
Covers a variety of military and civilian helicopters, including the Robinson R-44, Hughes 500D, MD Explorer, CH-47D, Apache, and others.
The Ten Second Jailbreak
Slow going until our hero, the Bell 47, rescues an inmate held
in a Mexican prison.
Larry Collier, revised by Kas Thomas
1986, 0-8306-0286-0
TAB Books
John J. McDonald
1981, 0-8306-2326-4
TAB Books
R. Randall Padfield
1992, 0-8306-2113-X
TAB Practical Flying Series
Sherry Knight Rossiter
1984
Progressive Pilot Seminars
Sherry Knight Rossiter
1984
Progressive Pilot Seminars
Federal Aviation Administration
Revised 1978
R.J. Adams and J.L. Thompson
FAA
(Reprint of parts of U. S. Army FM 1-51)
Aviation Supplies and Academics, Inc (ASA)
Department of the Army
May 1965
Charles Zweng
1965
Pan American Navigation Service
Norman Bailey
1992
1-85310-188-5
Airlife Publishing Ltd
R. W. Prouty
1985
Philips Publishing, Inc.
R. W. Prouty
1988
PJS Publications, Inc.
R. W. Prouty
1993
Philips Business Information, Inc.
W. J. Wagtendonk
1996
1-56027-217-1
Aviation Supplies and Academics, Inc (ASA)
Jean-Pierre Harrison
1993
0-9638491-0-7
Pilot Training Publications Co
George H. Saunders
1975
0-471-75509-5
Wiley
Wayne Johnson
1980
0-486-68230-7
Dover Publications
Simon Newman
1994
0-470-23394-X
Halsted Press (Wiley and Sons)
W.Z. Stepniewski
C.N. Keys
1984
0-486-64647-5
Dover
Alfred Gessow
1952 (8th printing 1985)
0-8044-4275-4
Fredrick Ungar Publishing
Joe Schafer
1980
0-89100-281-2
Jeppesen-Sanderson Training Products
Robert Mason
1983, 0-670-21582-1
Viking Press
J.D. Coleman
1988
0-312-96635-0
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Matthew Brennan, Editor
1990, 0-671-74453-4
Pocket Books
George C. Wilson
1992, 0-671-87926-X
Pocket Books
John Everett-Heath
1992
185409-066-8
Arms and Armour Press
E.J. Everett-Heath, G.M. Moss, A.W. Mowat, and K.E. Reid
1990
0-08-036716-X
Brassey's
Hugh W. Cowin
1984
0-8317-4200-3
Gallery Books
Keith Carey
1986, 0-8306-2410-4
TAB Books
Not useful for pilot training.
Joe Stein
1985, 0-9614498-0-2
The Zig Zag Papers
A color image of that picture can be seen
here.
Erle Stanley Gardner
1965
William Morrow and Company
Aviation Week & Space Technology
1995
0-07-003168-1
McGraw-Hill
Eliot Asinof
1973
0-03-001011-X
Holt, Rineholt and Winston