On Mar 30, 11:21 pm, Dudley Henriques wrote:

Langewiesche was quite talented and in many ways ahead of his time. My
first exposure to a flying textbook was "Stick and Rudder". I still own
that copy today.
The main thing about S&R I always tell new students is that although
very good in it's day, there have been a lot of advancements in
aerodynamics and aircraft design that have made more modern updated
textbooks of much greater educational value to the student pilot.

--
Dudley Henriques

Exactly -- it seems that S&R would be best read post PPL.

S&R forced me to really think about Angle of Attack in a way no other
experience had (in flight or not).

But -- it would get easy for a student to get bogged down in the later
chapters.

You gotta love the graphics with the pilot siting in these cavernous
cabins, dressed in a suit, hat, and smoking a pipe.


Dan Mc