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Wolfgang Langewiesche Biography

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Wolfgang Langewiesche was a German-born American author renowned for his profound insights into aviation and adventure. His works covered a range of topics from World War II to modern aviation, with his most famous book being 'The Art of Flying'.

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Author: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.”

“Get rid at the outset of the idea that the airplane is only an air-going sort of automobile. It isn't. It may sound like one and smell like one, and it may have been interior decorated to look like one; but the difference is - it goes on wings.”

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Book:Stick & Rudder: 50th Anniversary Edition

Source: Stick & Rudder: 50th Anniversary Edition

“Flying is done largely with the imagination.”

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Author:Wolfgang Langewiesche

“A fierce and monkish art; a castigation of the flesh. You must cut out your imagination and not fly an airplane but regulate a half-dozen instruments . . . .At first, the conflicts between animal sense and engineering brain are irresistibly strong.”

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Author:Wolfgang Langewiesche

About the Author

Born: 1907
Died: 2002
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Quotes: 5

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