airplanes

Simple text and photographs present the lives of Wilbur and Orville Wright and their pioneering efforts in the development of the airplane.

Rhymed text and illustrations describe different kinds of planes and their unique abilities.

A twelve-year-old boy named Tom Tate meets Orville and Wilbur Wright and witnesses the invention of the airplane in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903.

Bird McGill, an eleven-year-old tomboy obsessed with flying in 1942, withholds judgement while her classmates maintain that new Japanese American student Kenji Fujita is a spy, but she realizes Kenji is just as American as she is when they find evidence of real spy activity during their research for a class project.

Presents a brief overview of inventors Orville and Wilbur Wright in graphic novel format, and examines their work on the first successful powered airplane.

Looks at some of the recreational uses of flight, discussing ballooning, gliding, air racing, aerobatics, and other activities.

An account of Amelia Earhart's dangerous 1932 flight across the Atlantic Ocean from Newfoundland to Ireland, in which she survived bad weather and a malfunctioning airplane. Includes a brief biography of the aviator.

Photographs, illustrations, and text explain how different types of aircraft are built and the technology involved in their construction.

Contains several illustrated photographs that chronicle the history of aviation from man's first attempts to fly including Leonardo da Vinci's drawings of flying machines, airships and balloons, and powered flight throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Explores different types of aircraft, from supersonic jets to helicopters, with photographs and facts about aviation.