Flying Magazine

I think every pilot secretly hopes that we will be the best, most amazing and competent pilot ever if an emergency happens. Then we also have some doubts that we will, and simultaneously hope that it never happens so we don't have to find out. (But if it does, we will totally be the master of that airplane. Maybe. Hopefully.) Perhaps this explains our perverse attraction to reading NTSB reports and books about pilot errors, accidents, and incidents. The more we can learn from others, the show more more we can hopefully avoid ourselves.

I Learned About Flying From That is a collection of essays from Flying magazine written by the pilots after having gotten through some time of emergency or just a generally bizarre piloting situation. All of the pilots herein have obviously survived to tell their tales, but that doesn't mean that any of these scenarios were less dire than some fatal ones. Many are just unbelievably stupid (buzzing houses, trying to follow a train), some were completely unexpected (copilot having a seizure), and some were those situations we hope to never be in (engine out and no instruments in IMC).

As most compilations of essays go, this one had some hits and some misses. On the whole the essays were quite good. The book was an easy read and I enjoyed it. The editing, however, left a lot to be desired. At times words were out of order or misspelled to the point of being confusing and detracting from the reading experience. One would think that a book of essays that have already been published would have the benefit of having been edited twice... but one would be wrong, apparently. show less

The 1970 issue of an annual by the editors of Flying magazine. Includes profiles of Bob Hoover, Clay Lacy, Darryl Greenamyer, and Art Scholl. Pilot report on the, then new, Cessna 150 Aerobat. Ernest Gann writes about flying aerobatics in his Bucker Jumgmann.
How to Do Aerobatics ; The Aresti Key ; Art Scholl; Chipmunk specials ; Super Pinto; Pappy Spinks; Spinks Akromaster

CONTENTS: The Wrights were Right (SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ENDS ARGUMENT WITH WRIGHT BROTHERS).
LANDPLANES OR FLYING BOATS FOR CARGO? (DOUGLAS DC-3, CONSOLIDATED LIBERATOR, CONSOLIDATED CORONADO FLYING BOAT).
WAR IN THE AIR PHOTO GALLERY.
ENGINES AND ALTITUDE (LOCKHEED P-38 LIGHTING TURBOCHARGING, NORTH AMERICAN P-51 MUSTANG SUPERCHARGING).
WW2 AIRCRAFT IDENTIFICATION GUIDE.

Glider in foreground SGU 2-22 NC91839 #13 once belonged to JAIME GIANDOMENICO who donated it's brother (SGU 2-22 N91895, #39) to Massey Air Museum where it was restored. On Flying mag cover Aug. 1947