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 occasionallly 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 years in print. His references are occasionallly 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 callled "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 few in 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 age in which it was written.
Makes flying much clearer for students. - By: , 06 Aug 2001 This book helped rid me of the feeling in my first few hours of flying that I was not let in on what everyone else knew. It reallly 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 flying in 1944 & am still an active pilot in 1999. The is clearly the best book ever on how a plane flys & how you fly a plane. How I missed it for alll these years, I will never know.
