Aeronautics
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Flight: 100 Greatest Aircraft
$40.00 Add to cartA comprehensive look at the world’s great aircraft from the experts at Flying magazine, featuring spectacular full-color photographs, fascinating and informative text, and detailed specifications that… [more below]
- Author: Phelps, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 24 2013
- ISBN10: 1616286067
- Language: English
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Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot
$18.00 Read moreA New York Times Notable Book – “An elegant, nonlinear reflection on how flying on a commercial airliner–even while painfully folded into a seat in coach–can lift the soul.” —The New York Times Boo
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Vanhoenacker, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 0804169713
- Language: English
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Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines Into Chaos
$23.00 Read moreIn this updated paperback edition of a “rich, readable, and authoritative” Fortune) book, Wall Street Journal reporter Petzinger tells the dramatic story of how a dozen men, including Robert Crandall … [more below]
- Author: Petzinger, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: December 24 1996
- ISBN10: 0812928350
- Language: English
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How to Land a Plane
$12.95 Read moreThe mystery of flight is magical; the reality, still more so–from the physics that keeps a 450-ton vehicle aloft, to the symphony of technology and teamwork that safely sets it down again. Take it f… [more below]
- Author: Vanhoenacker, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1615195467
- Language: English
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Out of This World: Star-Studded Haiku
$18.99 Read moreThis companion to Earth Verse: Haiku from the Ground Up soars into space with a perfect fusion of poetry and science, accompanied by breathtaking illustrations.
one minuscule speck
grows into the unive- Series: Sci-Ku Haiku
- Author: Walker, Sally M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1536203564
- Language: English
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The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane
$16.99 Add to cartA Newbery Honor-winning biography of the men whose experiments brought about the Age of Flight.
This engaging narrative account of Orville and Wilbur Wright, two men with little formal schooling but- Author: Freedman, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 01 1991
- ISBN10: 082341082X
- Language: English
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Area 51
$31.99 Add to cartArea 51, a top secret military installation for testing unacknowledged, or black, projects, lies in a desert valley northwest of Las Vegas. During the Cold War, CIA and Air Force officials chose this … [more below]
- Author: Merlin, Peter W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: November 21 2011
- ISBN10: 1531650376
- Language: English
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First Flight: The Story of Tom Tate and the Wright Brothers
$5.99 Add to cartThis Level Four I Can Read book is a perfect bridge to chapter books for elementary-grade kids–and it introduces the thrilling story of the Wright Brothers, flight pioneers.
When Tom Tate hears that
- Series: I Can Read Level 4
- Author: Shea, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: February 18 2003
- ISBN10: 0064442152
- Language: English
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This Is Your Captain Speaking: Stories from the Flight Deck
$17.95 Add to cartFor everyone from frequent fliers to aviation geeks, travel buffs to nervous travelers, Captain Doug Morris tells you everything you want (and need!) to know about flight
Captain Doug Morris has been
- Author: Morris, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1770415858
- Language: English
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Air Carrier Operations
$49.95 Add to cartWhether a Part 121 airline or a Part 135 charter operator, a company lives or dies by its compliance with the applicable Federal Aviation Regulations, or FARs (14 CFR). Air Carrier Operations introduc
- Author: Holt, Mark J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1644252600
- Language: English
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Wilbur and Orville Wright: Young Fliers
$8.99 Read moreWilbur and Orville Wright: Young Fliers is the next installment in the Childhood of Famous Americans series.
From Augusta Stevenson, Wilbur and Orville Wright: Young Fliers this lively, inspiring, and- Series: Childhood of Famous Americans (Paperback)
- Author: Stevenson, Augusta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 31 1986
- ISBN10: 0020421702
- Language: English
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Exploring Flight! (ADA Twist, Scientist: The Why Files #1)
$12.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling creator of the Questioneers, Andrea Beaty, and author Theanne Griffith, Exploring Flight! (Ada Twist, Scientist: The Why Files) is the first in a full-color nonfict… [more below]
- Series: Questioneers
- Author: Beaty, Andrea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: December 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1419759256
- Language: English
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Sky High!: A Soaring History of Aviation
$29.95 Add to cartSky High! introduces you to a whole ensemble of scientists, inventors, and builders: those from the distant past, such as Leonardo da Vinci and the Montgolfier brothers; those closer to the present,
- Author: Ambrozewski, Jacek
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 16, 2024
- ISBN10: 0500653410
- Language: English
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The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
$19.99 Add to cartDive into this “truly compelling” (Good Morning America) New York Times bestseller that explores how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war–from the creator and host of the podcast
- Author: Gladwell, Malcolm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0316296813
- Language: English
