Trikes
The Flex-Wing Flyers
By Lucian Bartosik and Hal McSwain

Trikes: The Flex-Wing Flyers is an exciting and important volume on Microlight Flight for trike enthusiasts of all abilities: beginners, intermediates, students, and flight instructors.  Packed with dozens of illustrations, this 270 page contribution to flexwing flight offers a unique approach not only to the art and craft of flying trikes but to a thorough understanding of how an aircraft with no rudder, no tail section, and no ailerons achieves flight.

Trikes is authored by two flex-wing afficionados (the aircraft they fly, not the authors, are “flex-wing”) whose respective understandings of trike flight provide a thoroughly effective if unusual strategy and format: the work is authored by an apprentice to trike flight and one of the sport’s leading authorities and proponents of trike flight.

Trikers from Capetown to Sydney will recognize Lucian Bartosik as one of Microlight’s foremost authorities in the sport. With years of experience and countless hours in three-axis, hang glider, ultralight, and microlight aircraft, Lucian provides such insight and clarity as is gleaned only from mastery of “our” type of flying coupled with complete dedication to the sport. Co-author, Hal McSwain, as a new comer to triking was frustrated when he discovered that no comprehensive work on trikes was out there and contacted Lucian to initiate Trikes — since nothing else existed to supplement his own flight training.

Bartosik’s and McSwain’s initiative is both successful and exhaustive in scope.

Chapters include:

• an explanation of the phenomenon of flight

• a description and history of microlight flight

• effects of flight controls in weight-shift aircraft

• preparations for flight

• weather

• navigation

• flight

• equipment and clothing

• triking activities

In addition, Trikes contains an extensive set of appendices, exhaustive flight and weather glossaries, and a complete index, and all weights and measures are in both U.S. and metric measures. The authors’ constant attention to safety, airmanship, and “pilot awareness” provides the perfect introduction to the sport and provides a cogent yet clear reference for trikers of all abilities. Trikes is sprinkled with numerous vig­nettes from the authors’ own experiences and sparkles with a blend of Welsh (Lucian) and Southern U.S. (Hal) humor.

      Trikes has received the endorsement of the USUA and the ASC.

Trikes: The Flex-Wing Flyers by Lucian Bartosik and Hal McSwain (Phoenix: H&L Press, 1998). Softback, perfect bound, 9 inches by 6 inches, approximately 270 pages. Price: $25.00 (U.S. currency) per copy, plus $3.50 shipping. For bulk orders, a discounted price may apply. Please contact Lucian Bartosik for full details. The information provided in Trikes: The Flex-Wing Flyers is theoretical and is set forth with the intent on the part of the authors to stimulate discussion regarding the flight and operation of weight-shift vehicles and aircraft. No part of the publication is intended to serve as a manual, guide, or other source of instruction for the operation of any such vehicle or craft, and the authors hereby expressly prohibit the use of any part of this publication as a manual, guide, or other source of instruction for such operation of any such vehicle or craft. As such, the authors expressly disavow knowledge of and responsibility or liability of any description for any and all use or misuse of this publication that does not comport with the uses and prohibitions set forth herein above.

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