Learning to Fly (Classic Reprint): A Practical Manual for Beginners - Couverture souple

Claude Grahame-White

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ISBN 10 : 1451015089 ISBN 13 : 9781451015089

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Learn the practical path from curiosity to capable flying. This concise guide introduces beginners to the facts, safety, and methods behind learning to pilot an aircraft. It explains why flight can be approachable for an average person and how tuition has evolved into structured, supervised training.

This edition frames flying as a skill that can be learned with careful instruction, weather judgment, and steady practice. It covers who can learn, how training is organized, and why early flying was perilous—and how modern approaches reduce risk. The book also surveys the broader hopes for aviation, from personal travel to commercial air service, while staying grounded in practical steps a novice can take.

• Foundational ideas about who can learn to fly and what preparation helps.


• How flight training is organized, including the role of instructors and schools.


• Safety considerations, weather judgment, and the evolution of aircraft design.

This book is a solid fit for readers starting their aviation journey, or anyone curious about how flying became a practical pursuit. It sets expectations, outlines beginner-friendly paths, and sketches the future of air travel.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

AUTHORS NOTE. This book is written for the novice--and for the novice who is completely a novice. We have assumed, in writing it, that it will come into the hands of men who, having determined to enter this great and growing industry of aviation, and having decided wisely to learn to fly as their preliminary step, feel they would like to gain beforehand--before, that is to say, they take the plunge of selecting and joining a flying school--all that can be imparted non-technically, and in such a brief manual as this, not only as to the stages of tuition and the tests to be undergone, but also in regard to such general questions as, having once turned their thoughts towards flying, they take a sudden and a very active interest. It has been our aim, bearing in mind this first and somewhat restless interest, to cover a wide rather than a restricted field; and this being so, and remembering also the limitations of space, we cannot pretend -and do not for a moment wish

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; ;HAP'1ER; 1 THEORIES OF TUITION; II TEMPERAMENT AND THE AIRMAN; III FIRST EXPERIENCES WITH AN AEROPLANE; (AS DESCRIBED BY MR GRAHAMEWHITE); IV THE CoNTROLLING OF LATEST-TYPE; 9; 20; 24; CRAFT 31; V THE STAGES OF TUITION 38; VI THE TEST FLIGHTS 53; vII PERILS OF THE AIR 56; III FACTORS THAT MAKE FOR SAFETY 76; IX A STUDY OF THE METHODS OF GREAT; PILOTS 82; X CROSS-COUNTRY FLYING; XI AVIATION AS A PROfESSION; 1I THE FUTURE OF FLIGHT; 92; 99; I04 ILLUSTRATIONS; A SCHOOL ~:!ACHINE WELL ALOFT ; GRAHA~iE-WHITE SCHOOL BIPLANE; THE CONTROLS OF A SCHOOL BIPLANE; REAR VIEW OF A SCHOOL BIPLANE; POWER-PLANT OF A SCHOOL BIPLANE; Frontispiece; MOTOR AND OTHER GEAR-AKOTHER VIEW 42; PUPIL AND INSTRUCTOR READY FOR A FLIGHT 44; PUPIL AND INSTRUCTOR IN FLIGHT (r) 46; PUPIL A~D INSTRUCTOR IN FLIGHT (2) 48; PUPIL AND INSTRUCTOR IN FLIGHT (3) 50;

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1451015089
• ISBN 13: 9781451015089
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 132
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