FLYING KNOW IT ALL: A-Z Simply explaining piloting, navigation, instruments, airliners, business jets, GA, drones, military aircraft, missiles, MAD, AF447, and little-known facts.

A unique book with a human touch for perusing at leisure if you are thinking of, or already engaged in, a career related to aviation. Also, has material invaluable for engineers, journalists, the military amongst others. Besides dealing with piloting procedures and the nuts and bolts of aviation, FLYING KNOW IT ALL it even delves into wider topics such as the Madman Theory in international relations, nuclear warfare, quantum mechanics, and military thinking, not forgetting the mental health of pilots and the fear of flying affecting passengers. There are printed and Kindle versions, with a inexpensive audiobook version available in the United States—and hopefully soon elsewhere. As extras, there are some special entries such the unusual combination of human factors underlying the implausible Air France AF447 crash where in the absence of the captain the aircraft stalled and began dropping like a brick into the sea. Other special entries even include “famous feats of airmanship,” the effectiveness of strategic bombing in World War 2, and Operation Paperclip spiriting away of German scientists such Werner Von Braun to the US at war’s end.