Customer Review: This book is truly for idiots. It assumes that you were in a coma or a recently thawed/reanimated caveman who is unsure what those noisy things in the sky are. The "Gliding" in the title refers to one thin chapter of the most basic info. This book would be entirely suitable for a precocious toddler... more info
Customer Review: I am half way through the book. As a person who has always wanted to fly ( and who never seemed to be able to put the money and the ambition together in the same place ) I purchased this book in anticipation of tomorrow, for tomorrow is the day I am taking my first glider ride. The day after... more info
Customer Review: This book brings the '30s and '40s to life, as only a handful of other authors have done. And what a story! A remarkable woman, who found herself IN THE AIR at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese launched their surprise attack... as a flight instructor, with a student pilot at the controls. There is so... more info
Customer Review: This is one of Arcadia's images of Aviation series. It is an amazing collection of some 200 pictures dating from 1929 to 2006. The subject is sail planes at the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Area. This area on the shore of Lake Michigan has almost ideal terrain for soaring. The wind... more info
Customer Review: I learned to soar in the 70s when Carle Conway's "Joy of Soaring" was the most widely used training manual. I haven't seen the more recent editions of the Conway manual but have recently re-read the first edition plus Derek Piggott's "Beginning Gliding" (1995 Ed.) I suggest that... more info
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