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Stick and rudder, 1944, Wolfgang Langewiesche also he didnīt die in an F5, but at the age of 95 in 2002.
I try a potshot at questions two and three:
2. The theory of flight often fails to show the pilot the most important fact in the art of piloting, -the angle of attack- and how it changes in flight.
3. The working speeds of an airplane
Very neat telling from Page 75, i like that one:
Certainly some instrument is needed that would tell the pilot exactly what his angle of attack is, that is, how much buoyanncy he has, how close he is to stall. But the art of flying is still in a primitive state . The most important fact about an airplaneīs flight condition is not indicated by an instrument. This is not because such an indicator cannot be built but because designers donīt apreciate the need for one.
Perhaps they are right, -too many pilots donīt know what Angle of Attack is in the first place, and such an instrumentīs indications would be meaningless to them.
No big changes happened since 1944, me think!