TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nahum,Andrew
TI  - Flight
T2  - DK eyewitness books
SN  - 9780593842379
PY  - 2024///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - DK Publishing
KW  - Aeronautics
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Airplanes
KW  - Flight
KW  - Flying-machines
KW  - Transportation
KW  - Informational works
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Illustrated works
N1  - Includes index; First published in 1990; Fly like a bird -- Lighter than air -- Gliding aloft -- Powered flight -- The first airplanes -- Flying aces -- Double wings -- The evolving plane -- Light aircraft -- Aero-engines -- The propeller -- Flying the world -- The jet age -- Jet propulsion -- Landing gear -- Controlling the plane -- In the cockpit -- On the flight deck -- Flying instruments -- Rotating wings -- Helicopter -- War in the air -- Hot-air balloon -- Airship -- A modern glider -- Plain sailing -- Did you know? -- Timeline -- Find out more
N2  - Soar into the high-flying world of aircraft with this picture-packed, fact-filled book. Eyewitness Flight is an essential guide to the history and science of humanity's most incredible feat: flying! Young readers will pour over stunning photography, alongside fascinating facts, of aircraft from Leonardo da Vinci's wing machines to jet airliners, as well as helicopters, gliders, zeppelins, monoplanes, biplanes, and even triplanes. Learn how technology made flight possible, which tools pilots use, and how our ability to take to the skies has shaped human history
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