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Presents a brief biography of Chuck Yeager, the man who broke the sound barrier, in simple text with illustrations including information his career as a air craft mechanic and test pilot, to becoming an expert on military aircraft and pioneering modern aviation.
3) The airplane
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80 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
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English
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Provides information about the invention of the airplane, looking at the quest to develop a flying machine, examining the lives of Orville and Wilbur Wright, and tracing the history of airplane technology.
10) Aviation century
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volumes : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
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English
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Secret Smithsonian adventures volume 1
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
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English
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After discovering that the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum is much smaller, has no Spirit of St. Louis airplane or Apollo 11 command module, and is filled with balloons, blimps, and dirigibles, four schoolmates travel through time to try and restore the Wright brothers to their well-earned place in history and learn about aerodynamics and other aviation principles along the way.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 26 cm
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In 1907 Columbus, Ohio, fourteen-year-old Cromwell Dixon, aided by his mother, begins building the flying bicycle he has invented to enter in the St. Louis Air Ship Carnival. Includes facts about Dixon's life as an aviation pioneer.
14) Flight
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72 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) + 1 color poster.
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English
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Traces the history and development of aircraft from hot-air balloons to jetliners, and includes information on the principles of flight and the inner workings of various flying machines.
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103 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
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English
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"This book is being published in association with the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. The museum will celebrate its 40th anniversary in July 2016. There will be a new Smithsonian exhibition, to be called "Milestones of Flight." This book is NOT a catalog of the exhibition; rather, it is a history of flight told through approximately twenty-five historical milestones"--
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341 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
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Reveals the most unusual space missions ever devised inside and outside of NASA during a time when nothing was too odd to be taken seriously, and the race to the moon and the threat from the Soviet Union trumped all other considerations. --Publisher.
18) The Wright stuff
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1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The all-American story of two Midwestern boys who truly believed they could fly, Orville and Wilbur Wright. Discover little-known facts about these visionary brothers and their flying machines that changed the world.
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All of aviation's dangerous, exciting, and most courageous moments are featured within this compendium on flight. Packed with stories of heroic and innovative pioneers, profiles of remarkable planes from Spitfires to space shuttles, and how-to instructions for making everything from origami helicopters to bottle rockets -- all accompanied by sensational photographs, illustrations, and diagrams.
20) War made easy : how presidents & pundits keep spinning us to death: The bases are loaded ; Flight
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Ironweed film club volume no. 28
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1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Three films examine modern American war, especially the Iraq War, and the propaganda, political agendas, and deceptions that may underly it. War made easy, based on the bestselling book by Norman Solomon, examines the strategies used by administrations, both Democratic and Republican, to promote their agendas for war from Vietnam to Iraq, and how propaganda and the media are used to persuade the nation that military aggression has been the appropriate...
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