A good question, paulo. I used to dip into the book frequently but haven't looked at it for a while. There is an inspirational quality to the writing, although that quality is difficult to define. On the more technical level, I really like the explanation of how and why an aircraft turns in the air, and the description of the approach towards "the spot that does not improve" is pretty helpful too.
Langewiesche would have preferred aircraft to take off with tailwheel gear and land with nosewheel gear (now there's an engineering problem for Genghis), and was a big fan of the allegedly un-spinnable Aercoupe (I like the one in the hangar at Goodwood), but auto-ruddered light aircraft did not catch on.
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