An edition of Back to Basics
(1977)
Back to Basics
Aircraft Construction, Cockpit Mechanics, and Flight Procedures
by the Editors of Flying Magazine
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The Back to Basics series was aimed at students at every level of experience. We tried to be thorough, systematic, exhaustive, scientifically correct -- and even interesting. For the most part, we think we succeeded, and that is why we have gathered the series (with some supplementary articles of similar format to fill out the occasional blanks) into a book. The knowledge that it contains is the best that a group of specialists in flying and in writing about flying have had to offer; it may amuse, it may instruct, it may occasionally save lives. - Foreword.
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Back to basics: aircraft construction, cockpit mechanics, and flight procedures
1977, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co.
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Back to Basics: Aircraft Construction, Cockpit Mechanics, and Flight Procedures
1977, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co
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Table of Contents
Foreword / Robert B. Parke, Publisher, Flying magazine
Part one : The aircraft.
The airplane, outside-in
How wings work
Flaps
Stabilators
Propellers
Prop and throttle
The instrument panel
Being kind to engines
All about oil
The electrical system
Turbocharging
Pressurization
Part two : The cockpit.
Understanding engine instruments
Swinging your compass
The instrument that (usually) isn't there
How radios work
Inside avionics
More about avionics
Autopilots
Flight directors
Part three : The pilot.
Weight and balance
Getting off the ground
Some fine points of takeoff technique
Rich, lean
Wind, speed, and range
Making miles out of gallons
The most dangerous myth
Attitude + power = performance
Ill winds
And crosswinds
And those terrible downwind turns
When the sun goes down
Induction icing
Multiengine emergencies
Spins
Declaring an emergency
Forced landings
Glide, baby, glide
The structure of airspace
IFR vs. VFR
Air-filing IFR
IFR at night
The missed approach
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| December 16, 2025 | Edited by MARC Bot | set source_records based on initial machine_comment |
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