flight

Provides an introduction to the history of flight and explores the various aircraft in use today.

Traces the history and development of aircraft from hot-air balloons to jetliners, and includes information on the principles of flight and the inner workings of various flying machines.

The earliest successful human flights were conducted using lighter-than-air balloons. Today, modern aircraft wings use a principle known as the Bernoulli effect to generate lift. Examine significant developments in air and space technology in air and space, one of the titles in the technology and innovation series.

When Piper loses her ability to fly, she finds she cannot even do ordinary things until the "normal" people around her help her recover her abilities, as she discovers theirs.

Following the advice of family members, a young bird learns to fly and tells other birds that to fly, they need only to flap their wings and try.

Provides many simple experiments on flight and the properties of air, and uses paper airplanes to demonstrate some of the basic principles of flight.

"A nonfiction account of a group of determined Black Americans who created a flying club and built their own airfield on Chicago's South Side in the period between World Wars I and II"--Provided by publisher.

After Riley listens to the bad advice of too many birds when designing her paper airplane, she returns to her original paper airplane design with much better results.

"Loujain watches her beloved baba attach his feather wings and fly each morning, but her own dreams of flying face a big obstacle: only boys, not girls, are allowed to fly in her country. Yet despite the taunts of her classmates, she is determined to do it--especially because Loujain loves colors, and only by flying can she see the color-filled field of sunflowers her baba has told her about. Eventually, he agrees to teach her, and Loujain's impossible dream becomes reality--and soon other girls dare to learn to fly"--Provided by publisher.

"Three flightless birds creatively and persistently pursue their dream of flying until, at last, they succeed"--Provided by publisher.