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14 CHAPTER ONE
The world’s worst airplane Aviators is a better reference for the person interested in a
accident was in Tenerife, Canary good aeronautical reference without the need of calculus.
Islands, on March 27, 1977. Two
Boeing 747s collided on the Wrapping It Up
ground, killing 561 people.
The brief discussion of nomenclature, controls, turns, and
pressure should give you the necessary tool to understand the
rest of the book. In the next chapter, How Airplanes Fly, we present a
physical description of flight. After flight is understood, we discuss the
airplane itself.
