I  have started a page devoted to excerpts from my book on art and science in flying. The first excerpt is about the invention of aviation checklists and related concepts, in the late 1930s. It turns out that the much-repeated story about a crash of a B-17 prototype is probably only partly true. The US Navy came out with a checklist at almost the same time.

Here is the page where I will post this and future excerpts.