McCormick (emeritus, aeronautical engineering, Pennsylvania State U.) presents a textbook for a course introducing students to measuring and predicting airplane performance, which includes air time. He divides students into groups of three to perform the appended experiments using simple equipment. Among the topics are airspeed calibration, power-required and trim, cruise, and static and dynamic stability and control. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)