--- product_id: 221182 title: "Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying" price: "33600CFA" currency: XOF in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.sn/products/221182-stick-and-rudder-an-explanation-of-the-art-of-flying store_origin: SN region: Senegal --- # Top #5 Aviation History bestseller Deep blue hardcover Iconic airplane cover art Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying **Price:** 33600CFA **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > ✈️ Elevate your flight IQ with the ultimate pilot’s playbook! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying - **How much does it cost?** 33600CFA with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sn](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/221182-stick-and-rudder-an-explanation-of-the-art-of-flying) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Fly Smarter, Safer:** Learn stall recognition and recovery techniques that could save your life. - • **Visual Flight Mastery:** Decode the pilot’s eye tricks for perfect landing approaches every time. - • **Timeless Aviation Wisdom:** 33+ years in print, trusted by student and veteran pilots alike. - • **Beyond Theory to Practice:** Bridges textbook knowledge with real-world flying challenges and solutions. - • **Master the Invisible Forces:** Unlock the secret of Angle of Attack and why it’s the pilot’s ultimate tool. ## Overview Stick and Rudder is a definitive, decades-long bestseller in aviation literature, offering an exact, practical analysis of flying fundamentals. It reveals the unseen principles behind flight control, stall dynamics, and landing techniques, making it essential reading for aspiring pilots, instructors, and aviation enthusiasts seeking to deepen their understanding and improve safety. ## Description Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. WHAT'S IN STICK AND RUDDER: The invisible secret of all heavier-than-air flight: the Angle of Attack. What it is, and why it can't be seen. How lift is made, and what the pilot has to do with it. Why airplanes stall How do you know you're about to stall? The landing approach. How the pilot's eye functions in judging the approach. The visual clues by which an experienced pilot unconsciously judges: how you can quickly learn to use them. "The Spot that does not move." This is the first statement of this phenomenon. A foolproof method of making a landing approach across pole lines and trees. The elevator and the throttle. One controls the speed, the other controls climb and descent. Which is which? The paradox of the glide. By pointing the nose down less steeply, you descend more steeply. By pointing the nose down more steeply, you can glide further. What's the rudder for? The rudder does NOT turn the airplane the way a boat's rudder turns the boat. Then what does it do? How a turn is flown. The role of ailerons, rudder, and elevator in making a turn. The landing--how it's made. The visual clues that tell you where the ground is. The "tail-dragger" landing gear and what's tricky about it. This is probably the only analysis of tail-draggers now available to those who want to fly one. The tricycle landing gear and what's so good about it. A strong advocacy of the tricycle gear written at a time when almost all civil airplanes were taildraggers. Why the airplane doesn't feel the wind. Why the airplane usually flies a little sidewise. Plus: a chapter on Air Accidents by Leighton Collins, founder and editor of AIR FACTS. His analyses of aviation's safety problems have deeply influenced pilots and aeronautical engineers and have contributed to the benign characteristics of today's airplane. Stick and Rudder is the first exact analysis of the art of flying ever attempted. It has been continously in print for thirty-three years. It shows precisely what the pilot does when he flies, just how he does it, and why. Because the basics are largely unchanging, the book therefore is applicable to large airplanes and small, old airplanes and new, and is of interest not only to the learner but also to the accomplished pilot and to the instructor himself. When Stick and Rudder first came out, some of its contents were considered highly controversial. In recent years its formulations have become widely accepted. Pilots and flight instructors have found that the book works. Today several excellent manuals offer the pilot accurate and valuable technical information. But Stick and Rudder remains the leading think-book on the art of flying. One thorough reading of it is the equivalent of many hours of practice. Review: Believe the 5 star reviews! - At VAF (Van’s Air Force), this book kept getting mentioned as one of their favorites. I couldn’t imagine what would be so great about it, especially when the content in it was so old. But, like many others, it’s probably one of my favorite aviation books now, and is loaded with good information that I’m convinced will make you a safer pilot. I know it has made me more self aware, and flying experimental planes, we need to do more to improve our safety record. Understanding the concepts more clearly in this book, is as good a start as any. I can’t really add anything that others haven’t already done, but do want to stress one point. Wolfgang says that pilots are quite apt at recovering from stalls, when they expect them. But the real problem, is, pilots when not practicing it, most don’t realize they have got themselves in a stall when in the pattern, so instead of pushing down on the stick (or yoke) to regain airspeed back, they are pulling back, not ever knowing they were in a stall before it is too late. That still seems like the major problem today too; particularly when turning left base and left downwind. Steeper turns while turning don’t help the situation since it increases the stall speed as well, and worst case scenario you’ve fooled around and got yourself into a spin. I can't imagine no one benefiting from this book. Review: All Student Pilots Should Buy This Book - When I was taking my primary training I was pinching every penny to buy flight time and this book seemed out dated and expensive. I finally bought it and read it. If I had spent the few bucks back then I would have saved the price of its purchase many times over in wasted flight instruction hours. Often what Langewiesch describes is preambled with ( I'm paraphrasing here ) "A well behaved airplane should not do this but..." Present day trainers are much better behaved than when he wrote this book so the characteristics he goes on to explain are minimized, and as a result often misunderstood or simply ignored. They shouldn't be. Sooner or later all airplanes exhibit some or all of those traits and knowing what they are, why they occur, and how to react to them will greatly improve your skills. Often the "theory" as inadequately explained in a noisy cockpit by your CFI as you strive to perfect your skills is only part of the puzzle. At some point theory is overcome in the real world by practical application and the limitations of aircraft design. For a simple example: you have probably been taught that you do not need to hold any rudder once you have established in a steady turn, but no doubt you have also discovered that it is sometimes necessary to hold some rudder in some turns. What gives? This book will help you identify why and when these sorts of things should or should not happen, what to do about them, and especially important, what NOT to do about them. ## Features - Deep blue hardcover with dust jacket in colors of ornage, white and blue with - picture of an airplane. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #15,206 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #5 in Aviation History (Books) #11 in Aeronautics & Astronautics (Books) #12 in Aerospace Engineering | | Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 1,587 Reviews | ## Images ![Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/711ilvFb+vL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Media Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Believe the 5 star reviews! *by J***E on August 30, 2014* At VAF (Van’s Air Force), this book kept getting mentioned as one of their favorites. I couldn’t imagine what would be so great about it, especially when the content in it was so old. But, like many others, it’s probably one of my favorite aviation books now, and is loaded with good information that I’m convinced will make you a safer pilot. I know it has made me more self aware, and flying experimental planes, we need to do more to improve our safety record. Understanding the concepts more clearly in this book, is as good a start as any. I can’t really add anything that others haven’t already done, but do want to stress one point. Wolfgang says that pilots are quite apt at recovering from stalls, when they expect them. But the real problem, is, pilots when not practicing it, most don’t realize they have got themselves in a stall when in the pattern, so instead of pushing down on the stick (or yoke) to regain airspeed back, they are pulling back, not ever knowing they were in a stall before it is too late. That still seems like the major problem today too; particularly when turning left base and left downwind. Steeper turns while turning don’t help the situation since it increases the stall speed as well, and worst case scenario you’ve fooled around and got yourself into a spin. I can't imagine no one benefiting from this book. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ All Student Pilots Should Buy This Book *by P***R on January 1, 2020* When I was taking my primary training I was pinching every penny to buy flight time and this book seemed out dated and expensive. I finally bought it and read it. If I had spent the few bucks back then I would have saved the price of its purchase many times over in wasted flight instruction hours. Often what Langewiesch describes is preambled with ( I'm paraphrasing here ) "A well behaved airplane should not do this but..." Present day trainers are much better behaved than when he wrote this book so the characteristics he goes on to explain are minimized, and as a result often misunderstood or simply ignored. They shouldn't be. Sooner or later all airplanes exhibit some or all of those traits and knowing what they are, why they occur, and how to react to them will greatly improve your skills. Often the "theory" as inadequately explained in a noisy cockpit by your CFI as you strive to perfect your skills is only part of the puzzle. At some point theory is overcome in the real world by practical application and the limitations of aircraft design. For a simple example: you have probably been taught that you do not need to hold any rudder once you have established in a steady turn, but no doubt you have also discovered that it is sometimes necessary to hold some rudder in some turns. What gives? This book will help you identify why and when these sorts of things should or should not happen, what to do about them, and especially important, what NOT to do about them. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The very basics that are sometimes left out in training *by K***E on June 16, 2011* I'm a german student pilot, currently in my initial practical flight training for my MPL/ATPL here in the US. When I arrived here and started flying, I soon felt that there were some things left out in training. Don't get me wrong, flight instructors here are great, but sometimes for some very basic questions, they didn't seem to understand even where my problem was and I did not understand what I did wrong and, for example, why my turns always felt a little different to the ones that my instructor did and so on. My flight school emphasizes very much the use of procedures and they sometimes seemed to expect that you learn the very basics of how to control an airplane somewhere besides doing all the procedures. Eventually, I decided to answer some of my questions by reading and I found "stick and rudder". When I received the package at the desk, I opened it in our briefing area and looked through the contents of the package and every instructor that came along and said things like "Oh, I know that book, it's a classic!". I started reading and after three or four days, I began to do some of the things that are taught in the book when I was flying. I can just say it definitely changed the way that I am controlling the airplane and improved my understanding for how the airplane reacts to inputs, especially when you take it near or into a stall. Yes, the book may be from the 30s or 40s and yes, the language used seems sometimes a little bit strange, but I learned a lot from this book and I will definitely read it some more times to get everything that I can out of it. ## Frequently Bought Together - Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying - Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge: FAA-H-8083-25C - FAR/AIM 2025: Federal Aviation Regulations/Aeronautical Information Manual (ASA FAR/AIM Series) --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.sn/products/221182-stick-and-rudder-an-explanation-of-the-art-of-flying](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/221182-stick-and-rudder-an-explanation-of-the-art-of-flying) --- *Product available on Desertcart Senegal* *Store origin: SN* *Last updated: 2026-08-29*