flight

Determined to learn to fly, Rudy adopts a hawk hoping that their kinship will bring him closer to his goal.

Using determination and vision, Clorinda the cow and her friend Hop the pig build a variety of flying machines, hoping to fulfill her desire to take flight.

After his family moves to a different part of town, Matthew tries to get back to his old house by trying on different pairs of wings in an unusual wing shop.

Pictures and text describe how animals fly and glide.

While riding on a bus with her grandmother, a little girl imagines that they are carried up into the sky and fly over the sights of New York City.

Gertrude the cow has a mind of her own and when she takes to flying, Miss Rosemary tries everything to coax her down from the sky.

Explains the basic science of flight, the problems of getting vehicles into the air, different types of engines, and aircraft design. Includes instructions for making aircraft models.