MOTORISTS IN THE AIR
This four page
article is about how a motorist could transfer his skills to flying an
aircraft. “But, broadly speaking,
motoring and flying have little in common”.
Johns says that "one of the big differences between motoring and
flying is that on the ground you can make a mistake, yet live to ride again
another day; but if you make a mistake in the atmosphere, the only riding
you’re likely to do will be in a nicely polished box with brass handles”. “Put it this way. It would be a simple matter to walk along a
piece of six-inch plank lying on your lawn.
You could dance along it without falling off. But if that same plank was bridged across a
chasm, you’d think twice before you did any walking, much less dancing. Yet no more skill is required for one than
the other. Boiled down, it becomes
simply a matter of keeping your head, and that’s really all flying is; the rest
is chiefly mechanical”.