Booklet style, 24 page pamphlet with text, photographs and illustrations on how to fly.
Summary:
William Piper distributed "How to Fly" booklets such as this to flying clubs to market his Piper Cub aircraft. The booklet taught readers the basic fundamentals of flight and was meant to make flying seem safe, easy, affordable, and fun.
The first part of the booklet describes the four different forces that affect flight (thrust, lift, drag, and gravity) and the four basic flying motions (forward, up and down, tilt, and turn). Next is a series of photographs and captions depicting every moment of a typical flight lesson in a Piper Cub, including "checking your plane before takeoff, taxiing to take off point, the take off, landing and, especially, the 4 fundamentals of flight: straight and level, climb, glide and turn." Readers are encouraged to study these procedures so they can pass their "preflight examination" and become a member of the "Cub Pilot Corps."
