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