The late B.H. Carson’s AIAA paper on “Fuel Efficiency of Small Aircraft” emerged unsought, like a dinosaur bone poking out of eroded Wyoming topsoil, from the scree of papers on my desk.
First published 45 years ago, Carson’s essay became a point of reference for the wonkier class of pilot, to whose vocabulary it contributed a couple of novel phrases: “Carson Speed” and “the least wasteful way of wasting.”
