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Shirley M Phillips knew she wanted to be a pilot when she was fourteen years old, thanks to an introductory flight in a Cessna that her father gave her and her twin sister at their local airport. Living in a small New England town where no one in her family had aviation experience, and at a time when only two percent of professional pilots were female, her decision to pursue aviation from the moment she left the ground set her on an unexpected path.
How Not to Fly an Airplane is about learning to fly before you are hold enough to drive a car, and teaching others when you are nearly always mistaken for being the pilot's girlfriend, wife, or daughter. It's about the many mistakes you can make in an airplane, and what it's like to solve them, thousands of feet in the air or just a few feet above the trees. It's about finding a sense of identity as a twin, becoming the first pregnant pilot at an airline, and losing a friend and former student in an infamous plane crash.
What happens when a student pilot freezes on the flight controls just a few hundred feet in the air? How do you deal with a flight instructor who takes out a runway light during a botched landing and then let's go of the stick? What's it like to have an engine failure when your airplane only has one engine? Told through Phillips's wide-ranging experience in over four decades of flying, How Not to Fly an Airplane is a memoir for anyone who has ever wondered what it's like to fly, and inspiration for anyone who has felt compelled to do something nobody thought they could do.
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