Dick Collins' Tips to Fly By: Techniques and Performance Tips for Better and Safer Flying by Richard L. Collins - 1980

New York, NY: Delacorte Press / Eleanor Friede , 1980 Delacorte Press / Eleanor Friede, New York. 1980. Hardcover. Stated First Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; scant shelfwear to board bottom edges; light foxing to textblock top. DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($11.95); light bumping to head, tail, tips, and DJ top edge; small closed tear at tail. Blue paper over boards with red cloth overlay on the spine with bright silver lettering on the spine. 304 pp 8vo. Pilot-in-command experience- thousands of hours at the controls of virtually all types of light aircraft in all flight conditions- is the main ingredient in this book. Add a wealth of practical, old-pro advice and flight-tested guidelines to hands-on flying; mix well with anecdotes that entertain while illustrating how and why each tip really works; top with some of the finesse of flying, and you have the contents of this book. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.