100 things you should know about flight
By: Sue Becklake
Series: 100 things you should know about; 100 things you should know about (Great Bardfield, England)
Publisher: Miles Kelly
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Great Bardfield
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781842365601
Subjects: Flight; Juvenile literature; Aeronautics; Vol; Ouvrages pour la jeunesse
Other titles: One hundred things you should know about flight; Hundred things you should know about flight
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Flying machines; title: The first flights; title: Early days of flying; title: Parts of a plane; title: How planes fly; title: Powerful engines; title: Climbing, diving and turning; title: Taking off and landing; title: The flight deck; title: A passenger jet airliner; title: At the airport; title: Helicopters; title: Balloons and airships; title: Taking off vertically; title: Planes for war; title: Working planes; title: Planes for fun; title: Planes at sea; title: Flying faster than sound; title: Flying in space; title: Strange planes.