Frightful flight
By: Nick Arnold, Tony De Saulles
Contributors: De Saulles, Tony, illustrator
Edition: New edition.
Series: Horrible science; Horrible science
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781407144511
Subjects: Flight; Juvenile literature; History; Aeronautics
Work titles: Fearsome fight for flight
Description: Laugh at some seriously silly flying stunts, find out which scientist was blown up in a balloon, and learn how to build a world-beating plane. With fantastic fact files, quirky quizzes and crazy cartoons, this text is a real high-flier!
Notes: Originally published as The fearsome fight for flight. London: Hippo, 2004.

Includes index.

10 years+.
Table of contents: title: Death-defying flying facts; title: Big-brained men and plunging parachutes; title: Barmy balloons; title: Awesome warships; title: Wright way to invent the plane; title: Plane-crazy planes; title: Potty pioneer pilots; title: Jumping jets; title: Epilogue: Fateful flight.