<p>The classic first analysis of the art of flying is back, now in a special 50th anniversary limited edition with a foreword by Cliff Robertson. leatherette binding, and gold foil stamp. Langewiesche shows precisely what the pilot does when he or she flies, just how it's done, and why.</p>

Stick & Rudder: 50th Anniversary Edition

Engineering & Transportation

Langewiesche, Wolfgang

Transportation

McGraw=Hill

This box set combines the three bestselling aviation trade titles of all time. These three books are icons within the aviation community. Buck is a world renown weather and flying expert who is currently writing his life/career memoir for Harper Collins. The foreword to Weather Flying is written by Langewiesche. The most influential pilot organization in the world, AOPA, hails Weather Flying as, "the most worthwhile piece of reading matter a pilot could own." AIAA claims, "this book is superbly written, the topics are well chosen, and the style entertaining...Buck uses his wisdom to write a very practical book that promises to become an aviation classic." Taylor is an multi-award winning author for numerous aviation books. Instrument Flying is his best and most famous title. AOPA's president issued a signature review of this book recommending it to "any pilot who wishes to be at their best in the instrument system." Buck authors the Foreword in which he states, "this book is a valuable link between theory and what instrument flying is really like." Taylor, retired from 40+ year career in military and commercial piloting and academia, is an aviation consultant

Stick & Rudder Classics, Box Set

TAYLOR, Richard L.

Buck, Robert N.

The Pilot and the Landscape: America from the Air (American Land Classics)

Travel

Hokanson, Drake

Kratz, Carol

Reference

The Johns Hopkins University Press

<p>"I am no helmeted, begoggled hero of the skies; picture me bookish, bespectacled, unable to hold even a teacup without rattling it. As a pilot, I am merely an amateur, and I know it. . . . I shouldn't be talking. But I can't help talking. For you take the air: the thin, substanceless air that can be made to bear a man; you take America; and you take an airplane, which of all the works of man is the nearest to a living being-you take those things and mix them up, and they will act as a drug which will knock all proper reticence right out of you. And so, here I go talking . . ."-from America from the Air In 1927, Charles Lindbergh made his historic solo flight across the Atlantic; Amelia Earhart became the first woman to do so in 1932. And so was born the golden age of flying. Aviators became the era's new heroes and the airplane its icon. In early 1930s Chicago, a German-born graduate student became fascinated by the airplane and its usefulness as a great geographic and sociological tool. Wolfgang Langewiesche sold his car and used his meager salary to pay for flying lessons at 25 cents a minute. With the same passion America had taken to the road a decade earlier, Langewiesche took to the air. He eagerly inhaled the landscape and breathed observations about the country, writing a series of books that describe the heady excitement and freedom of flight and the stunning views of his adopted country from an entirely new vantage point-the sky. This new edited volume revives the writings from two of his now out-of-print books. America from the Air draws from Langewiesche's classic account of his early experiences as a pilot, I'll Take the High Road (first published in 1939 and praised by the New York Times as "a stirring and revealing story, told with sensitiveness and lucidity and with the warmth of a modest personal charm"), and selections from his 1951 memoir, A Flier's World, to create a distinctive book that provides a</p>

America from the Air: An Aviator's Story (American Land Classics)

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Johns Hopkins University Press

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