All about aircraft and flight

Peter Mellet

Book - 2003

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Published
London : Southwater 2003.
Language
English
Main Author
Peter Mellet (-)
Other Authors
John Rostron (-), Peter Harrison, 1950-
Physical Description
64 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm
ISBN
9781842158920
  • What is flight?
  • Wings and lift
  • Curve and lift
  • Air resistance
  • Shaped by design
  • Gliding and soaring
  • Kites and sails
  • Let's go fly a kite
  • Lighter than air
  • Hot air rising
  • What's in a wing?
  • Taking flight
  • Model planes
  • Propellers
  • Propel yourself
  • Jet engines
  • Zoom through the air
  • Faster than sound
  • Going up
  • Strange aircraft
  • Speeding through water
  • Flying through space
  • Birds in flight
  • How birds fly
  • Insect wings
  • Amazing flying animals
  • Prehistoric flyers
  • The history of flight
  • Fly into the future
  • Glossary
  • Index