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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.
