Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight
The son of "Stick and Rudder" author Wolfgang Langewiesche is an extremely accomplished author in his own right, as any reader of the Atlantic Monthly will tell you. Here is a compilation of several short essays on flight (many having previously appeared in the Atlantic), each of which explore the strengths and weaknesses of pilots, airplanes, and the systems with which and in which they operate.
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