Customer Reviews
60 years on, it's still the definitive guide - By: , 30 Dec 2003 
I thought I had aeroplane control sussed as a student. A bit rough at the edges & things occasionally happened that I wasn't quite expecting, but good enough & nothing dangerous... Until I read this book.
Langewiesche has writtten a masterpeice on the "art" of flying & is still compulsive reading after 60 yearsin print. His references are occasionally quaint, such as comparing the "gait" of your aeroplane to the gait of your horse & referring to the elevator as "flippers" (the latter being much less misleading).
If only he'd also written books called "A Practical Guide to International Politics", "Crime Fighting Made Simple" & "Understanding Women" the word would be a better place ;o)
Definitive - By: Christopher Chinnery, 14 Jul 2003 The best explanation ever written on how to fly an aeroplane, & one of the fewin which the essence of the subject is not buried under a mountain of irrelevant technical detail. If you read only one book on how to fly, this should be it. Even the illustrations are not only very clear, but evocative of the agein which it was written.
Makes flying much clearer for students. - By: , 06 Aug 2001 This book helped rid me of the feelingin my first few hours of flying that I was not letin on what everyone else knew. It really clarifies those hazy edges when you're trying to take on such foreign skills. Someone should have told him that women have been known to fly too, though!
THE pilot's Bible! - By: , 07 Jul 1999 Without a doubt the best book on piloting I've read. Reminds us of the importants of old fashion flying techniques that our young flight instructors never learned.
the best book on flying that I ever read. - By: , 28 Apr 1999 I began flyingin 1944 & am still an active pilotin 1999. The is clearly the best book ever on how a plane flys & how you fly a plane. How I missed it for all these years, I will never know.
