Stick and Rudder An Explanation of the Art of Flying [Hardcover]

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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 stallHow 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 al��