Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying

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		Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying
		Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying

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.

Wolfgang Langewiesche first soloed in 1934 in Chicago. Early in his flying he was struck by a strange discrepancy: in piloting, the words and the realities did not agree. What pilots claimed to be doing in flying an airplane, was not what they did in practice. Langewiesche set himself the task of describing more accurately and realistically what the pilot really does when he flies. The first result was a series of articles in Air Facts, analyzing various points of piloting technique. In 1944 Stick and Rudder was published.

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经典的飞行书籍，把理论的东西用很本能的方式讲出来，很有帮助。

好好啃这本书，一定有收获。

I'm not a complete fan of the writing style, but the information offered is quite valuable to me anyway let's say. There are items of interest you might not, or most likely will not get from MOST CFI's. No offense, but too many people rush through school just to get certified then become a CFI. They get the right answers that they memorized on the test based on what they have to answer, flew the right patterns well enough to get by and so on, you know the type. Not saying the right answers are wrong, but a lot of those test-passers can talk the talk but can't walk jack-s***.

The point is, this book breaks down many important concepts that I personally am not just memorizing, but making mine. If there was an emergency situation, and I knew you read this book, I would rather have you flying the plane than someone who's flown for 10 or more years and hasn't. (Read the book.)

Highly recommended.

I'm pursuing a PPL under part 61 so I'm basically building my own ground school curriculum from books here at Amazon. The various FAA books are good, and cover the basics, but in terms of describing how an airplane is flown, how it's maneuvered, and how to avoid digging a big hole in the ground, this is the book. Just buy it already... I don't care how long you've been flying I'm convinced you'll find this a good read. I read through it the first time right after reading the FAA Airplane Flying Handbook, and even though it was written in the 40's (and has a few dated ideas... like how rudders will be gone from airplanes in "a few years") it still does a much better job of describing the basics. The book is well-written, well-illustrated, and comprehensive.

The single most important thing I learned from reading this, and what is missing from every other book I've read, is how to avoid killing yourself in an airplane. The author talks about how accidents actually happen, and most importantly how to avoid them. It's simple, to-the-point, and not necessarily what you'd think (although it is completely logical). Those chapters alone should make it mandatory reading for any pilot, and that's only about 20% of the book. Consider the rest a bonus.

I'm a german student pilot, currently in my initial practical flight training for my MPL/ATPL here in the US.
When I arrived here and started flying, I soon felt that there were some things left out in training. Don't get me wrong, flight instructors here are great, but sometimes for some very basic questions, they didn't seem to understand even where my problem was and I did not understand what I did wrong and, for example, why my turns always felt a little different to the ones that my instructor did and so on. My flight school emphasizes very much the use of procedures and they sometimes seemed to expect that you learn the very basics of how to control an airplane somewhere besides doing all the procedures.
Eventually, I decided to answer some of my questions by reading and I found "stick and rudder". When I received the package at the desk, I opened it in our briefing area and looked through the contents of the package and every instructor that came along and said things like "Oh, I know that book, it's a classic!". I started reading and after three or four days, I began to do some of the things that are taught in the book when I was flying. I can just say it definitely changed the way that I am controlling the airplane and improved my understanding for how the airplane reacts to inputs, especially when you take it near or into a stall.
Yes, the book may be from the 30s or 40s and yes, the language used seems sometimes a little bit strange, but I learned a lot from this book and I will definitely read it some more times to get everything that I can out of it.

If you are a pilot and if you are able to fly "by the seat of your pants" then this book explains the phenomena perfectly. You have somehow come to grips with how a wing works, maybe from all those trips as a kid when you held your hand out of the backseat window of a car as it sped down the road and marveled at the notion of lift. Seems so, so simple--and it is! This book just puts it all into airplane perspective. If you are a natural pilot, this is a must read. If you stiffly fly by rote from what you were taught and would like to become a natural pilot, this book will help you do that.

Reading the book "Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying" was a great read and in my humble opinion the book should be a must read for all Pilots. It is hard to believe that this book was written in 1944 and the reader soon realises that the art of flying an aircraft has not changed very much over the years. This book does not go into depth as far as the academic side of the theory of flight is concerned but it does explain in layman's language how an aircraft flys. I have never read an aviation book or article that goes into such detail about explaining the importance of the correct management of the Angle of Attack at all times and what one should do when one enters into the stall regime. Yes, we are taught this at flight school but will we recognise, in time, the fact that we are already in a spin and what is the correct action that we should take? The section on turns and the correct usage of the rudder, especially in tight turns was, for me, a huge benefit. This book should be part of the PPL syllabus and I have no hesitation in recommending it to ALL fixed wing pilots.

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