aeronautics

Photographs and simple text identify the many things children might see or do while taking their first trip on an airplane.

Text, labels, cutaway artwork, and diagrams provide an overview of how technology is at an airport, discussing check-in, flying machines, terminals, travelators, air traffic controllers, and other related topics.

Describes some of the different devices, including hot air balloons, gliders, airplanes, and jets, used to get people into the air. Includes various projects.

Presents the boyhood of the brothers who flew the first airplane in 1903.

Includes projects dealing with air density, wind, balloons, gliders, spacecraft, and many more aviation and space-related categories.

An illustrated history of flight from early theories to the present time.

The billionaire entrepreneur and pioneer of the first commercial spaceliner examines the history of aviation, citing the achievements of such leading contributors as Tony Jannus, Leon Valentin, and Steve Fossett.

An account of their nine-day flight around the world, the first plane to circum-navigate the globe nonstop without refueling.

Archival photographs and text profile the Wright brothers and their pioneering first flight.

Answers questions about transportation and vehicles, including "Do airships run on air?" and "Why don't ships sink?".