Crowley County Combined Library

Text and illustrations teach young children about different types of airplanes and their parts.

"Developed by literacy experts in partnership with educators for students in PreK through grade two, this book introduces beginning readers to airplanes through simple, predictable text and related photos"--

"The angles and curves of aircraft are paramount components in their flight. Airplane enthusiasts will love the action photographs of their favorite planes and then creating their own with some paper and the art of origami. After learning just a few kinds of folds, they can produce their own models, including an orbiter, a stunt plane, and a spy aircraft. Accessible directions accompanied by labeled illustrations make this book a fantastic introduction...

Provides an up-close look at the high-tech features and awe-inspiring armament of twenty fierce warplanes. Includes an inside look at some of the hottest bombers, helicopters, and fighter planes.

"Covers a wide selection of machines that fly, from airliners to hot air balloons, outlining how they work and their uses"--Provided by publisher.

Uses engaging nonfiction text and hands-on projects to help young readers explore real-life flying vehicle engineering projects, including the science behind how these vehicles are planned and built.

This book describes supersonic jets, airplanes that travel faster than the speed of sound.

Bell has never encountered a case- and an enemy- quite like the one before him now, though. It is 1910, the age of flying machines is still in its infancy, and newspaper publisher Preston Whiteway is offering $50,000 for the first daring aviator to cross America in less than fifty days. He is even sponsoring one of the prime candidates- an intrepid aviatrix named Josephine Frost- and that's where Bell, chief investigator for the Van Dorn Detective...