I normally write about ideas that apply to flying any aircraft. But today is different. This is Airbus specific. Very specific! Recently read a couple of peer-reviewed scientific research papers that do a great job parsing Airbus stick skills and fine-grain aircraft control. I’ve learnt some new things, confirmed some suspicions, but still have questions. The four topics are: The …
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1927 Notes on Flying
I am currently enjoying a great book, The Tiger Moth Story, by Alan Bramson & Neville Birch (Airlife Publishing, 1982 revised and enlarged edition of the original 1964 classic). In it, there are a few pages from an article published in 1927 titled The ‘Moth’ Machine, by one Geoffrey de Havilland, who would later become legendary as an aviation pioneer …