Aircraft and flight

Mellett, Peter.

Rostron, John.

Series: Investigations
Notes
Learn about flight
64 p.
col. ill.
Previously published as: Learn about flight. "The origins of human aviation and the wonder of natural flight"--Cover. Table of contents includes: 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.
Location edition Bar Code due date
Non-fiction B026637
Dewey:629.13
call #:MEL
ISBN:1844777146 9781844777143
pub:2004
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