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The jet age

1987
Color illustrations, diagrams, and text describe the history of the jet plane and its uses. Contains a "Spotter's Guide" that shows the aircraft drawn to scale.

Airplanes

1994
Describes various shapes and sizes of airplanes including passenger airplanes, seaplanes, crop dusters, and spaceplanes.

Birds

1994
Demonstrates birds' ability to fly.

Flying insects

1994
Describes various flying insects including crickets, dragonflies, beetles, and fireflies.

Flying animals

1994
Describes how various animals fly including squirrels, fish, snakes, and lizards.

Illusions

2012
As her senior year of high school starts, Laurel is just beginning to adjust to Tamani's absence when he suddenly reappears, telling her he must guard her against the returning threat of the trolls that pose a danger both to her and to Avalon.

Air battles

1987
Describes aircraft and air combats of World War II, examining how the aircraft developed from lightly armed biplanes to jet fighters equipped with radar and flying bombers carrying atomic weapons.

Fighter planes

1996
Traces the history of fighter aircraft, focusing on the most significant models of the major world powers, and describes the "dream planes" of the future.

Bomber planes

1996
Describes the design of various types of bombers, their uses in combat, and their role in the future.

Combat helicopters

1996
Presents a history of military helicopters with descriptions of some notable models from the U.S. Air Force.

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