Military aeroplanes, simplified, enlarged; an explanatory consideration of their characteristics, performances, construction, maintenance, and operation, specifically arranged for the use of aviators and students (1918)
Loening, Grover Cleveland, 1888- · [Boston, W. S. Best printing company] · leaf 15
half an inch. But to do it with the properdelicacy, the controls must be grasped with the highly sensitive touchof a musician, and not gripped with a death defying determination tofly or bust. The set face, and the controls grasped with an irongrip with the obvious determination to defy death just… … The American type of training aeroplane, in which the pilot and his pupil sit onebehind the other, each with a set of control levers. We have said stunting requires a steady attainment by practice. Even more so is this true of making landings. There is the realtest of an aviator! For on making…
Airplanes · Aeronautics, Military
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