My 13 year old nephew is OBSESSED with the air force and his entire Christmas list is filled with air force-related things. I think he'd really dig a "military-techno" novel. Historic fiction, fiction, or biographical novels could all be of interest to him. I think he'd prefer things in a modern setting (basically, Vietnam war era-to-postmodern).
The one thing I want to be wary of is anything containing sexual themes or hard drugs/partying. I've personally read and have seen in my 15 minutes of research a lot of novels full of an inordinate amount of curse words where every other chapter is the main character(s) in the bedroom or debauching themselves. I personally don't care, but I don't feel comfortable purchasing a novel with those sorts of themes for a 13 year old kid who isn't my own kid.
by nis_sound
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The Right Stuff is mostly about pilots trying to be astronauts. So there is a lot of flying. Claire Chennault leader of the Flying Tigers has been written about. Also Eddie Rickenbacker. Dale Brown has a series of books.