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1) Take off!
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm
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English
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Surveys the history, achievements, activities, and technology of aviation.
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English
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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.
6) 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.
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341 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
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English
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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.
8) Airplanes
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31 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 x 23 cm.
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English
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An introduction to the history of flight and to specific airplanes of the past, present, and future.
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English
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"How does a space rocket work? Clever Cogz knows the answer! Join Cogz the robot dog to discover all about rockets and other amazing space vehicles. Introducing physics and engineering topics in a fun and simple way, young readers will learn all about their favorite space machines and how they work"--Back cover.
13) Flying machine
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62 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
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English
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A photo essay tracing the history and development of aircraft from hot-air balloons to jetliners. Includes information on the principles of flight and the inner workings of various flying machines.
14) High flying
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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Traces the history of flight, describing the world's first flying machines, pioneering pilots, and the planes of the future.
18) 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.
19) Falling
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English
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There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers on your flight. What you don't know is that your pilot's family was kidnapped. The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane. Enjoy the flight.
20) Fly like a girl
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1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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More than just a film, this is a movement of young girls and women relentlessly pursuing their passion for aviation.
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