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1) Flight
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Provides an overview of the principal stages in the history of flight, from animal flight and the first attempts to develop human flight to the present, and describes the invention of the various systems on an airplane and notable aircraft.
Author
Series
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Language
English
Description
An updated edition of Red Phoenix leverages theb declassified Russian archival sources, combat documents and statistical information that has been revealed in the past 30 years to offer a complete account of the Soviet Air Force's rise from a ragtag squadron facing annihilation in 1941 to the word's biggest air force four years later.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
The first people to fly did so in hot-air balloons. Some 120 years later, the Wright brothers' heavier-than-air flying machine made powered, controlled flight possible. Ever since, aviators have aspired to fly faster, farther, and higher. With advances in rocketry, a new era dawned.
10) Black wings
Publisher
Smithsonian Channel
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A documentary on the first African American aviators, examining the achievements of Bessie Coleman, William Powell, James Herman Banning, Thomas C. Allen, and Marlon Green.
