Project Gutenberg's Learning to Fly, by Claude Grahame-White and Harry Harper

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

Title: Learning to Fly
A Practical Manual for Beginners

Author: Claude Grahame-White
Harry Harper

Release Date: December 18, 2008 [EBook #27557]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LEARNING TO FLY ***

Produced by the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from
images generously made available by The Internet
Archive/American Libraries.)

LEARNING TO FLY

[Illustration: _Photo by Topical Press Agency._
A SCHOOL MACHINE WELL ALOFT.]

LEARNING TO FLY

A PRACTICAL MANUAL FOR
BEGINNERS

BY

CLAUDE GRAHAME-WHITE
AND
HARRY HARPER

_FULLY ILLUSTRATED_

NEW YORK
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

PRINTED IN ENGLAND.

CONTENTS

I. THEORIES OF TUITION 9

II. TEMPERAMENT AND THE AIRMAN 20

III. FIRST EXPERIENCES WITH AN AEROPLANE 24
(AS DESCRIBED BY MR. GRAHAME-WHITE)

IV. THE CONTROLLING OF LATEST-TYPE CRAFT 31

V. THE STAGES OF TUITION 38

VI. THE TEST FLIGHTS 53

VII. PERILS OF THE AIR 56

VIII. FACTORS THAT MAKE FOR SAFETY 76

IX. A STUDY OF THE METHODS OF GREAT PILOTS 82

X. CROSS-COUNTRY FLYING 92

XI. AVIATION AS A PROFESSION 99

XII. THE FUTURE OF FLIGHT 104

ILLUSTRATIONS

A SCHOOL MACHINE WELL ALOFT _Frontispiece_

FACE PAGE

GRAHAME-WHITE SCHOOL BIPLANE 34

THE CONTROLS OF A SCHOOL BIPLANE 36

REAR VIEW OF A SCHOOL BIPLANE 38

POWER-PLANT OF A SCHOOL BIPLANE 40

MOTOR AND OTHER GEAR--