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Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This book introduces readers to the science behind aviation. Students learn about the four forces of flight: gravity, lift, drag, and thrust. Vivid photographs and easy-to-read text aid comprehension for early readers. QR Codes in the book give readers access to book-specific resources to further their learning. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards." --
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 12 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Aeronautics is the science of flight as well as the theory and practice of aircraft navigation. Any machine that flies through the air falls into the field of aeronautics. This includes helicopters, airplanes, as well as space vehicles such as the SpaceX Dragon and the retired NASA space shuttles. Aerodynamics is a branch of physical science which deals with the motion of air and the way that it interacts with objects in motion. By studying the way...
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone High-Interest Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes adventures in flying airplanes, including a history of the first airplanes, adventures of early pilots, and current airplane adventures.
Publisher
The Film Detective
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A 1953 documentary that was used by United Aircraft to celebrate fifty years of flight and explores aviation like never before with interviews from notable pioneers.
8) Airplanes
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
31 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 x 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the history of flight and to specific airplanes of the past, present, and future.
9) Dream planes
Author
Publisher
Dillon Press
Pub. Date
c1992.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
72 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes some recent advances and future technological possibilities in the field of air transportation.
Series
Publisher
FUNimation Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011?]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (625 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
It's the dawn of the golden age of aviation on planet Prester, and retro-futuristic sky vehicles known as vanships dominate the horizon. Claus Valca - a flyboy born with the right stuff - and his fiery navigator Lavie are fearless racers obsessed with becoming the first sky couriers to cross the Grand Stream in a vanship. But when the high-flying duo encounters a mysterious girl named Alvis, they are thrust into the middle of an endless battle between...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as 'human computers' used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in...
12) Go, Otto, go!
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Simon Spotlight hardcover/paperback edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Otto the robot builds a spaceship to take him home.
13) The right stuff
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Men first flew into space in 1961, but until The Right Stuff was first published in 1979 few people had a sense of the most engrossing side of that adventure: namely, the perceptions and goals of the astronauts themselves, aloft and during certain remarkable odysseys on earth. It is this, the inner world of the early astronauts, John Glenn, Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, and their confreres, that Tom Wolfe describes with his extraordinary powers of empathy....
Author
Publisher
Clavis Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition (small sized edition)
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
Explains what a pilot does, including checking if the airplane is ready to leave, talking to the control tower, and filling out a flight report.
15) Superfast planes
Author
Series
Publisher
Bearport Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history of aviation, the planes built for speed, and the men who flew them.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amelia Earhart's autobiographical book The Fun of It: Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in Aviation covers Earhart's life through May 20—21, 1932, when Miss Earhart, alone in a Lockheed Vega monoplane with a single Wasp engine, negotiated 2,026 miles through storm and fog from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to a cow pasture on the outskirts of Londonderry, Ireland. The flight set a transatlantic record of 14 hours, 56 minutes... and stirred...
19) The rocket
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 92 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Lao
Description
A boy who is believed to bring bad luck to everyone around him leads his family and two new friends through Laos to find a new home. After a calamity-filled journey through a land scarred by the legacy of war, to prove he's not bad luck he builds a giant rocket to enter the most exciting and dangerous competition of the year: the Rocket Festival.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In 2019, teens Mia, Antoine, and Midori are selected by lottery to join experienced astronauts on a NASA mission to the once top-secret moon base, DARLAH 2, while in a Florida nursing home, a former astronaut struggles to warn someone of the terrible danger there.
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