[:en]Strategic goals and a lesson from aviation[:ja]戦略ゴール: 飛行機操縦からの教え[:]

[:en]Flying instructors sometimes advise the  pilots they are training never to think in terms of the mechanics of manoeuvering their plane–moving the rudder, ailerons or elevators. Instead, they advise to think in terms of pressure. There is a nice account of this in Jet Age by Sam Howe Verhovek, where Toy Franklin is teaching Alvin “Tex” Johnston to fly. Tex Johnston later became chief test pilot for Boeing during the heady early days of commercial jet aviation. “Right and left pressure on the rudder pedals for directional control, side pressure on the stick for a roll, and fore-and-aft pressure on the stick to move the nose upwards toward you or away from you. Don’t […]

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