Wind in the Willows is a delightful book written for children by Kenneth Grahame about 100 years ago. Despite the texts above, it will tell you nothing about flying, but quite a bit about Life.

(this information for the enlightenment of anyone not fortunate enough to be born British ;)

Copy for sale!
 

If anybody would like to purchase my copy, which is new and unread (beyond page 53) please PM me.

I will accept half what I paid plus P&P.

Broomstick.

Brittish people are strange...

Er, no, British people are British. Everybody else is Foreign and therefore de facto "strange".

(That's being somewhat eccentric, mind, including the Scots and Welsh as not-Foreign - normally one would talk about the "English" not the "British". See http://www.englandsportal.com/englishinsong.html for a discussion of the differences.)

I can understand that, in fact, most European countries or regions feel different and historically, i myself live in a fake happend by accident country called Belgium, but i'm Flemish and Flemish people are different than anybody around them. Luckely Belgium will stop to exist in a few years (max 10), if democracy can speak. More than 70% of the Flemish voters voted this year for more independancy, now it's already 4 months after the elections and the goverment is still not formed and no end is in sight. The lazy part of Belgium (French speaking) keeps saying NO to democracy. The marriage has come to an end, we need to talk about alimony now. (and yes we will pay our ass off to them, like we have allways done in the past, even in the year 1900)

Stick & Rudder is so good precisely because it doesn't resort to formulae to explain how an aeroplane flies, and why it some times doesn't.

If you want to know how to design aeroplanes, it won't help you much.

If you want to know how to fly one - it's the bible.

If you read and understand S&R, you understand flight. Not many PPLs do. It should be required reading for every PPL, but is irrelevant to any college of aeronautics.

SSD

Totally agree Shaggy. I know it is unlikely to ever find its way into an official syllabus, but I think schools should sell it and display it in those glass cabinets that they have full of Thom books and clipboards.

You don't have to resort to formulae to give a scientifically accurate explanation of why an aeroplane flies (or does not).

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