| Publication |
London, Southwater, 2013.
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| Description |
64pWhite spine
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| Summary/Abstract |
How does a jumbo jet stay in the air? How does a hummingbird hover over a flower with pin point precision? Decode the mysteries and discover the scientific facts about natural flight and human aviation, and learn about the history of flying and the techniques of nature's most skilled flyers.
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| Contents |
What is flight?
Wings and lift
Curve and lift
Air resistance
Shaped by design
Gliding and soaring
Kites and sails
Let's go fly a kite
Lighter than air
Hot air rising
What's in a wing?
Taking flight
Model planes
Propellers
Propel yourself
Jet engines
Zoom through the air
Faster than sound
Going up
Strange aircraft
Speeding through water
Flying through space
Birds in flight
How birds fly
Amazing flying animals
Prehistoric flyers
History of flight
Fly into the future
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| Standard Number |
9781842158920 Pb.
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