Any young boy can nowadays explain human flight - mechanistically: ". . . and to climb you shove … - Wolfgang Langewiesche

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Wolfgang Langewiesche

Any young boy can nowadays explain human flight - mechanistically: ". . . and to climb you shove the throttle all the way forward and pull back just a little on the stick. . . . " One might as well explain music by saying that the further over to the right you hit the piano the higher it will sound. The makings of a flight are not in the levers, wheels, and pedals but in the nervous system of the pilot: physical sensations, bits of textbook, deep-rooted instincts, burnt-child memories of trouble aloft, hangar talk.

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