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publisher for quality authenticity or access to any online entitlements included with the
product. WHAT'S IN STICK AND RUDDER: The invisible secret of all heavier-than-air flight: the
Angle of Attack. What it is and why it can't be seen. How lift is made and what the pilot has
to do with it. Why airplanes stall How do you know you're about to stall? The landing approach.
How the pilot's eye functions in judging the approach. The visual clues by which an experienced
pilot unconsciously judges: how you can quickly learn to use them. The Spot that does not move.
This is the first statement of this phenomenon. A foolproof method of making a landing approach
across pole lines and trees. The elevator and the throttle. One controls the speed the other
controls climb and descent. Which is which? The paradox of the glide. By pointing the nose down
less steeply you descend more steeply. By pointing the nose down more steeply you can glide
further. What's the rudder for? The rudder does NOT turn the airplane the way a boat's rudder
turns the boat. Then what does it do? How a turn is flown. The role of ailerons rudder and
elevator in making a turn. The landing--how it's made. The visual clues that tell you where the
ground is. The tail-dragger landing gear and what's tricky about it. This is probably the only
analysis of tail-draggers now available to those who want to fly one. The tricycle landing gear
and what's so good about it. A strong advocacy of the tricycle gear written at a time when
almost all civil airplanes were taildraggers. Why the airplane doesn't feel the wind. Why the
airplane usually flies a little sidewise. Plus: a chapter on Air Accidents by Leighton Collins
founder and editor of AIR FACTS. His analyses of aviation's safety problems have deeply
influenced pilots and aeronautical engineers and have contributed to the benign characteristics
of today's airplane. Stick and Rudder is the first exact analysis of the art of flying ever
attempted. It has been continously in print for thirty-three years. It shows precisely what the
pilot does when he flies just how he does it and why. Because the basics are largely
unchanging the book therefore is applicable to large airplanes and small old airplanes and
new and is of interest not only to the learner but also to the accomplished pilot and to the
instructor himself. When Stick and Rudder first came out some of its contents were considered
highly controversial. In recent years its formulations have become widely accepted. Pilots and
flight instructors have found that the book works. Today several excellent manuals offer the
pilot accurate and valuable technical information. But Stick and Rudder remains the leading
think-book on the art of flying. One thorough reading of it is the equivalent of many hours of
practice.
