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The Steen Skybolt 250, the Homebuilt Biplane That Still Teaches Stick and Rudder the Hard Way

A 250-hp 1994 Steen Skybolt made Flying's AircraftForSale top picks - here's what this back-to-basics aerobatic biplane demands of pilots.

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Wolfgang Langewiesche, Stick and Rudder, and the Nineteen Forty-Four Book That Still Teaches the Wing to Every Pilot Flying Into Oshkosh

Wolfgang Langewiesche's 1944 book Stick and Rudder still teaches the one lesson that keeps pilots alive: the wing flies on angle of attack.

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