Gives instructions on choosing and assembling models of aircraft, building a hangar, and acquiring the necessary supplies. Also includes a brief history of real aircraft emphasizing those that are successful as models.
Louis is obsessed with airplanes and decides to borrow his friend Toby's toy biplane without his permission, but when the plane is broken, Louis feels guilty and hides the plane in his bedroom.
Provides information about over twenty of history's most significant flying machines, and features diagrams for each vehicle that may be reproduced, cut out and assembled.
Presents a ten-day mathematics project for fifth to eighth graders in which students team up as "construction companies" and build toothpick bridges that can withstand weight. Includes teaching suggestions and reproducible forms.
Contains step-by-step instructions for making twelve different small-scale paper airplane models, and features between five and six color-illustrated pages for each model, with printed folding lines.
Instructions on 10 different paper airplanes, categorized by difficulty, and sidebars offer tips on troubleshooting, emphasizing the precision of creasing the folds, symmetry and making minor adjustments (called "trimming").
