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027185
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London, Southwater, 2013.
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64pWhite spine
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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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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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9781842158920 Pb.
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 024864 | 629.1309/MEL | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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008792
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USA, Firefly Books Ltd., 2001.
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128pDark Blue Spine
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The major milestones in flight history illustrated from the collections of the National Air and Space Museum. Includes the development of flight and diagrams explaining flight science and technology.
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Introduction
The beginnings of flight
Powered flights : first attempts
The Wright brothers
Wright brothers in France
Aviation takes off
World War I : fighters
Flying a fighter
World War I : Bombers
Barnstorming
Racing for the skies
Douglas world cruisers
Going the distance
Charles Lindbergh
Ameila Earhart
Airmail to airlines
Air transport
Airships
Flying boats
World War II : fighters
World War II : Battle of Britain
World War II : War at sea
Enola Gay
The sound barrier
Korea and Vietnam
Modern military aircraft
Modern fighters
Spy in the sky
Jet mission
Helicopters
Working planes
Modern record breakers
Rockets and the space age
To the edge of space
Mercury and Gemini
Comparative rockets
Apollo to the moon
One small step
Exploring the moon
A different world
Homeward bound
Skylab
Apollo-Soyuz
Space suits
The space shuttle
Keeping cool
The glass cockpit
Shuttle orbiter
Space telescope
Meeting Mir
Living in space
Gliding home
Space station
Building the ISS
Research and design
Mission to Mars
Milestones of flight
Glossary
Index
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1552095991 Pb.
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 009170 | 629.1309/RIN | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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027181
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New York, Dutton Children's Books, 2001.
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48pPurple spine
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Montgolfier Brothers, inventors of the hot-air balloon, Alberto Santo-Dumont, master of the dirigible, Cal Rodgers, the first to fly across America, Bessie Coleman, the first Black female pilot, Jimmy Doolittle, daredevil aviator and pilot, Beryl Markham, the first to cross the Atlantic, east to west, "Wrong Way" Corrigan, pranster aviator.
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0525464662 Hb.
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| 024866 | 629.1309/ZAU | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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008791
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USA, Dk Publishing Inc, 2006.
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68pBlue Spine
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DK Experience
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Uses panoramic storyboard sequences, illustrated referencing and integrates groundbreaking images with powerful narrative text to help one imagine the printed text in a different way.
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9780756614119 Hb.
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| 009169 | 629.1309/PLA | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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010315
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Brighton, Book House, 2006.
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64pDark Blue Spine
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Brain Power
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An illustrated history of flight from the pioneer aviators to the complex computer controlled machines of today - offering readers a vast store of information at their fingertips.
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9781905087884 Pb.
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 010701 | 629.1309/CLA | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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008590
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USA, White Star Publishers, 2002.
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320pWhite Spine
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Describes the history of flight from the flying machine of Leonardo da Vinci to the conquest of space. This book recounts the steps along the path to the conquest of the sky , from convertiplanes to the sophisticated warplanes.
Also covers the Cold War.
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The earliest endeavours
The dirigibles
Heavier-than-air machines
The first World War
The birth of commercial aviation
Seaplanes and marathon flights
The second World War : the Allies
The second World War : the Axis
The first jets and the Korean War
The era of the great transport aircraft
The great fighters of the fifties
The Cold War
Helicopters
Trainers
General aviation
European fighters
Vietnam
The Arab-Israeli wars
Great airliners
Fighters of the seventies
The third level
The Gulf and Kosovo : The last wars
Airbus and Boeing
Today and tomorrow
The space shuttle
Bibliography and index
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8854402117 Hb.
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 008961 | 629.1309/NIC | Main | On Shelf | Reference books | Reference |
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