Aviation Books by Howard Fried: Tell Me About Airplanes from Aircraft Spruce

With over half a century and forty thousand hours of experience Howard Fried offers a wealth of insight on matters aeronautical. Although he has never practiced law, he has a law degree and has passed the Michigan Bar.

Howard Fried trained in the U. S. Army Air Corps during World War II and has an excess of 40,000 hours of flight experience in all types of General Aviation airplanes, both normally aspirated and turbocharged as well as several turbo props and jets. Fried has flown everything from 40 horsepower Cubs to Citations and Lear Jets, from gliders to floatplanes. Fried founded a very active flight school in 1964 where he trained pilots for all certificates and ratings.

In a career spanning seventeen years as a Designated Pilot Examiner until victimized by rogue FAA officials, he administered over four thousand certification flight tests for all certificates and ratings. Fried is a lecturer and speaker on Aviation Education and Safety and an expert witness in aviation litigation.

Although originally meant to be a book designed to answer children's questions about airplanes, Tell Me About Airplanes is suitable for anyone of any age who is curious about just how airplanes work. Heavy as they are, just how do they defy gravity and stay aloft? How do they navigate from departure to destination? What happens in an emergency? And a myriad of other questions are answered n this fascinating little book.