aeronautics

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aeronautics

Planes

1990
Discusses how planes fly, the history of flight, the first airlines, occupations involving aeronautics, contemporary commercial flights, and other aspects of planes.

The Wright brothers

2004
A biography of the two inventors whose 1903 powered, controlled flight of an airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, made history.

Airplanes

2003
Photographs and simple text offer a brief introduction to the history of flight and explore the many jobs people have making airplanes, and working on airplanes and in airports.

Pilots fly planes

1997
Explains the work of a pilot by taking the reader step-by-step through a typical day.

Wilbur & Orville Wright

1988
A biography concentrating on the childhood of the airplane inventors Wilbur and Orville Wright.

The Wright brothers

how they invented the airplane
1991
Follows the lives of the Wright brothers and describes how they developed the first airplane.

Brave Harriet

the first woman to fly the English Channel
2001
The first American woman to have received a pilot's license describes her April 1912 solo flight across the English Channel, the first such flight by any woman.

Our neighbor is a strange, strange man

1999
In illustrations and simple text, tells how Melville Murrell invented the first flying machine in 1876.

First to fly

how Wilbur & Orville Wright invented the airplane
2002
A look at the lives of the Wright brothers, from their childhood interest in flight, through their study of successful gliders and other flying machines, to their triumphs at Kitty Hawk and beyond.

Airplane

2003
Introduces assorted airplanes and other flying machines, including gliders, helicopters, and space shuttles.

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