Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying is a book written in 1944 by Wolfgang Langewiesche, describing how airplanes fly and how they should be flown by pilots. It has become a standard reference text for aviators.
Stick and Rudder was partially derived from a series of articles written by Langewiesche for Air Facts magazine, an aviation safety publication. The author explains, in straightforward language with a minimum of technical...
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Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying is a book written in 1944 by Wolfgang Langewiesche, describing how airplanes fly and how they should be flown by pilots. It has become a standard reference text for aviators.
Stick and Rudder was partially derived from a series of articles written by Langewiesche for Air Facts magazine, an aviation safety publication. The author explains, in straightforward language with a minimum of technical jargon, how aircraft fly, and methods for flying them. The book covers the principles of lift and the concept of angle of attack, and describes the various modes of flight (glides, stalls, cruise flight, etc.), and goes on to treat a wide variety of flying topics, most of them related directly to safety and actual piloting of an aircraft.
The matter-of-fact and casual writing style of the author and the large amount of information compressed into a fairly compact volume have helped to make Stick and Rudder a continuing favorite of aviators...
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