Answers children's questions about flying on an airplane. Discusses what to pack, security, food and bathrooms, and take-off and landing procedures. Includes color photographs, a picture glossary, and sources of more information.
Describes the changes in air travel from 1927 to the present day beginning with Amelia Earhart's nonstop flight across the Atlantic ocean to the airliner 787 which could fly nonstop for 8,350 miles. Also discusses the safety of air travel in the twenty-first century despite terrorism concerns.
Tells the story of how the citizens of Gander, Newfoundland and its surrounding communities opened their hearts and homes to passengers on airliners bound for the United States that were forced to land in Gander when U.S. airspace was closed on September 11, 2001.
