Audacious aviators
Subtitle: true stories of adventurers' thrilling flights
By: Jen Green
Series: Ultimate adventurers; Ultimate adventurers
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781410954176; 9781410962973
Subjects: Air pilots; Juvenile literature
Description: This book tells the stories of adventurers who have defied gravity and soared above the Earth, from pioneer aviators and astronauts to the free-falling fearlessness of Felix Baumgartner.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 46) and index.

Accelerated Reader AR 6.6 1.0 163268.
Table of contents: title: Chuck Yeager; title: faster than sound; title: Rutan and Yeager; title: never touch down; title: Piccard and Jones; title: around the world; title: Melvill and Binnie; title: shot into space; title: Team Discovery; title: overcoming disaster; title: Yves Rossy; title: rocket-powered jetman; title: Felix Baumgartner; title: leap into space; title: Timeline; title: Quiz; title: Glossary.