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Cleared for takeoff : the ultimate book of flight /

All of aviation's dangerous, exciting, and most courageous moments are featured within this compendium on flight. Packed with stories of heroic and innovative pioneers, profiles of remarkable planes from Spitfires to space shuttles, and how-to instructions for making everything from origami hel...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: White, Rowland (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2016]
Subjects:
Aeronautics > History > Juvenile literature.
Aeronautics > History > Pictorial works.
Flying-machines > History > Juvenile literature.
Flying-machines > History > Pictorial works.
Aeronautics.
Flying-machines.
Aeronautics > History.
Flying-machines > History.
Flying machines.
History.
Juvenile works.
Pictorial works.
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Summary:All of aviation's dangerous, exciting, and most courageous moments are featured within this compendium on flight. Packed with stories of heroic and innovative pioneers, profiles of remarkable planes from Spitfires to space shuttles, and how-to instructions for making everything from origami helicopters to bottle rockets -- all accompanied by sensational photographs, illustrations, and diagrams
Physical Description:320 pages : illistrations (mostly color), color maps ; 27 cm
Audience:8-12.
4-6.
ISBN:9781452135502
1452135509