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1) Aircraft
Author
Series
Publisher
Smart Apple Media
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Explains how airplanes fly, provides background on the beginnings of aviation, and describes several kinds of aircraft, including big airliners, business jets, fighters, and stealth planes, covering their lengths, wingspans, speeds, and unique capabilities and characteristics.
3) Planes
Author
Series
Publisher
Amicus
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Describes many different types of planes, how they work, and the amazing things they do.
7) Fly
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The step-by-step process of air travel from the perspective of a young girl on a trip with her parents is revealed in this informative picture book."--Provided by publisher.
10) Planes
Series
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Dusty is a cropdusting plane with dreams of competing as a high-flying air racer. But Dusty's not exactly built for racing, and he happens to be afraid of heights. So he turns to a seasoned naval aviator, who helps Dusty qualify to take on the defending champ of the race circuit. Dusty's courage is put to the ultimate test.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A decorated former Air Force pilot. A pregnant flight attendant. A dedicated TSA agent. The fates of these three, and many others, converge in Danielle Steel's gripping new novel--a heart-stopping thriller that engages ordinary men and women in the fight of their lives during a flight from New York to San Francisco. On a beautiful May morning at New York's John F. Kennedy airport, two planes have just departed for San Francisco--one a 757, another...
12) Fly by night
Author
Publisher
Oceanview Pub
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A top-secret drone crashes in the Horn of Africa and prized aircraft ends up in the hanger of a company named Fly by Night Aviation, but when Jammer Davis is called to investigate a plane crash in the Sudan he discovers a conspiracy that will threaten America like nothingelse has.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In this heart-stopping tale, the passengers of the Hudson River crash landing evoke in compelling detail the terrifying explosion as both engines were destroyed, the violent landing on the river, and the thrill of their rescue from the wings and from rafts. Jay McDonald, a thirty-nine-year-old software developer, had survived brain-tumor surgery just two years earlier and now faced the unimaginable. Tracey Wolsko, a nervous flier, suddenly became...
16) Planes
Author
Series
Publisher
Smart Apple Media
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Introduces different types of planes from huge jet airliners to tiny microlights.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lonely Planet Global Limited
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Get ready for takeoff! Unfold the pages and lift the flaps of this fact-packaged book to explore the busy world of airports. Peek inside the bustling terminal building, hop aboard a jumbo jet, climb the control tower and much more"--Back cover.
20) The aviator
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Howard Hughes was a rich young man from Texas, heir to his father's fortune, when he decided he wanted to make movies. Age 21, he made the most expensive Hollywood film ever (at the time); and went on to break air-speed records, make another fortune in aircraft design, smash Charles Lindbergh's round-the-world flight record, and be romantically linked with almost all of Hollywood's famous beauties. Nevertheless, he died alone, sealed into a room he...
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