17 • Cargo • (2008) • short story by E. Michael Lewis
37 • The Horror of the Heights • (1913) • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
57 • Nightmare at 20,000 Feet • [Nightmare at 20,000 Feet • 1] • (1962) • short story by Richard Matheson
79 • The Flying Machine • [Fantastic Fables] • (1891) • short story by Ambrose Bierce (variant of The Flying-Machine)
81 • Lucifer! • (1969) • short story by E. C. Tubb
95 • The Fifth Category • (2014) • short story by Tom Bissell
129 • Two Minutes Forty-Five Seconds • (1988) • short story by Dan Simmons
139 • Diablitos • (2017) • short story by Cody Goodfellow
157 • Air Raid • (1977) • short story by John Varley
175 • You Are Released • novelette by Joe Hill
207 • Warbirds • (2007) • short story by David J. Schow
229 • The Flying Machine • (1953) • short story by Ray Bradbury
237 • Zombies on a Plane • (2010) • short story by Bev Vincent
247 • They Shall Not Grow Old • (1944) • short story by Roald Dahl
269 • Murder in the Air • non-genre • (2000) • short story by Peter Tremayne
293 • The Turbulence Expert • short story by Stephen King
311 • Falling • (1967) • poem by James Dickey
This is a rarity--a theme anthology put out by a major publisher! (Cemetery Dance did the first run but then Scribner published it). Of course, it had King's name on it so they knew they could shift units (although I wonder whether the theme helped or hindered with the Hudson News airport paperback market).
This seems like a decent, eclectic selection, although I've only read a few--the Matheson story is familiar at this point although you couldn't do an antho on this theme and
not include it. Horror of the Heights is good pulpy fun. The Dan Simmons piece didn't do anything for me when I read it years ago. Other than that the only other one I've read is "Cargo," which is okay and not the story I'd have opened the book with.
Am sure I read the Bradbury during my youthful Bradbury binge phase but can't say it left an impression as I don't remember a thing.
