[Zman516]

I agree, Stick And Rudder is the book to read if one wants to understand how aircraft fly and how to control them. When I read it all the "Bernoulli's Law"-type stuff in my head vanished and I understood.

As for the Reno crash, I still can't believe a lost trim tab by itself would cause a 10-g zoom and the tragedy that followed...But then I've never flown a P-51 500 mph either! ;-)

[PiperShade]

During my “airport bum” years one, Sky Manor in Pittstown, NJ was a mecca for major “movers and shakers” in the aviation world. In its cafe, along with Wolgang, you could chat with Leighton and Dick Collins, Bob Buck, Marvin Cole, Jim Bede, Bob Hoover, Leo Laudenschlager and Chet Volk are among notables and pioneers I readily recall.

I always marveled at how many from the,(old and new), frontiers of aviation made their way to this little outpost over the years I hung around ! But then, western NJ/Eastern PA was a mecca for pilots in those times ! >PS