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.

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.

An introduction to the history of flight and to specific airplanes of the past, present, and future.

Provides an illustrated chronology of flight, from prehistoric insects to future spacecraft.

Traces the history of flight, describing the world's first flying machines, pioneering pilots, and the planes of the future.

Photographs and simple text identify the many things children might see or do while taking their first trip on an airplane.

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.

Have you ever wondered how guns and bullet proof jackets were invented? From spears and arrows to experiments with rocket and lasers, from chain mail to kevlar and ceramic plates, It'll Never Work: Weapons and Warfare explores the history and development of weaponry, the successes and failures that have led to the weapons of modern warfare that we know today. Each title in this exciting, high-interest series looks at a different area of technology...