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The Smell of Kerosene by Donald Mallick
Just looked this up, It's available free here: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/pdf/88797main_kerosene.pdf
Christmas reading sorted...
Scrabble-
Yes! NASA have got Boris Chertok's Rockets and People volumes 1-4 as free ebooks as well. They're massive, I think I got about halfway through Volume 1 but then ended up wiping my phone, have put them on my kindle now and will get around to them at some point. Interesting to get the Russian perspective on WW2 aircraft and rocket design (and space race presumably in volumes 2-4).
Edit for link: https://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/rockets_people_vol1_detail.html
TurtleRecall
I'm re-reading Chickenhawk by Robert Mason, it's an amazing book by a Vietnam Huey pilot. Seriously, if you haven't read this you really should.
Also, you may already be aware of most of these, but I'd definitely recommend:
Low Level Hell by Robert Anderson (scout pilot in Vietnam)
Wings on my sleeve by Eric "Winkle" Brown (flown basically everything, at the forefront of test flying for years)
Skunk Works by Ben Rich (Lockheed skunk works aircraft designer - Blackbird, F117)
The Smell of Kerosene by Donald Mallick (NASA test pilot)
There are more, but can't think of them now...