Product Description

In 'The Flying Book', David Blatner explains how flying actually works. The book is filled with amusing anecdotes and eye-opening statistics.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28508 in Books
• Published on: 2004-07-29
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Review
If you're moderately uncomfortable about flying, The Flying Book is likely to be of some reassurance. If you won't step inside the terminals at Heathrow for love nor money, then you need more help than David Blatner can offer. For the rest of us, The Flying Book is funny, contains more information about flying than you'll ever need, and it's a gold mine for one-liner airline stats (The Observer )

Hundreds of facts (are) packed into David Blatner's useful little tome (Erica Wagner, The Times )

About the Author
David Blatner is the author of nine books, including the best-selling Penguin book The Joy of Pi. He lives in Seattle, Washington, and can be found at moo.com.

Customer Reviews

Bring On The Turbulence!!!
The author sides with the reader right away. He knows his audience. People who have no problem flying aren't likely to buy this book. Thankfully for the author, 1 out of 3, as he points out, have some form of anxiety about being 40,000 feet above ground in a steel tube.

By far the most useful section of the book deals with turbulence. This chapter is basically a physics lesson made simple. In short, he explains how a little movement by the plane results in the sensation of a large movement. He even explains how air pockets don't exist.

There is also plenty of information on every part of a plane flight, from pre-take off to landing. I actually read the along with the book during a recent flight. The only thing scary about that flight was how bang-on he was.

The book delves into other flight fear oriented subjects. This includes a chapter on media obsession with plane crashes.

This book has been printed in easy "carry on" size. I highly recommend white-knuckle types to take it on the plane. As soon as you hit turbulence, you'll feel like it's the smoothest flight you've ever been on!

Super cool flying facts!
I bought the book out of curiosity. I love flying and often wonder whether I'll ever fulfill my pilot day dreaming adventures...

The book is filled with facts from how a plane flies to how weather affects flying; from plane food to how not to flush a plane loo whilst you're still sitting on it!

It also details a pilots resoponsibilities and covers a the short history of commercial flight.

A super book for anyone who has flown and wonders about the uniquness of flight. Its simple, gives you more than you need to know and fails to bore.

It's a shame text books don't come in this format!

Have you ever wondered why.....
Pilots never have beards or why the co-pilots have to wear an oxygen mask whilst the pilot is in the loo?! Or why you can't use mobile phones onboard or why planes almost always take off into a headwind?!

Well, everything you wanted to know about flying is contained in this fascinating book (plus there's the whole science bit if you're interested in that!!)