aeronautics, commercial

An overview of a child's first airplane ride in a question and answer format.

Examines career opportunities within the aviation and aerospace industry and includes information on eighty jobs including aircraft maintenance, aviation safety and management, flight operations, military aviation, and space flight.

A color-illustrated look at the methods used by the Transportation Security Administration to protect Americans in airports, aircraft, and elsewhere. Also includes a chronology, glossary, and list of further resources.

Identifies the skills and education needed to become an airline pilot, provides a look at the day-to-day activities of one, and includes information about aircraft controls, reading the weather, preparing to land, and other related topics.

Photographs and easy-to-follow text introduce children to the people and things they might see while going on an airplane.

Provides a wealth of information about commercial flight, explaining how airplanes work, why they sometimes crash, how to survive an emergency, what goes on behind the scenes at an airline, how planes are built, and factors that affect the skyways, discussing the history of flying, and looking at other flying machines.

Explains activities both at an airport and inside an airplane.