books about: flight

books about: flight

books:

Flight

Flight Volume Five (Flight Graphic Novels)

Villard, 2008

STORIES BY JP Ahonen Graham Annable Chris Appelhans Bannister Matthew Bernier Scott Campbell Svetlana Chmakova Tony Cliff Phil Craven Michel Gagné Kazu Kibuishi Kness Sonny Liew Reagan Lodge Made John Martz Sarah Mensinga Ryan North Richard Pose Paul Rivoche Dave Roman Kean Soo Joey Weiser

Airman

Eoin Colfer

Hyperion Book CH, 2008

Grand, high adventure from an author who gets better with each new book
No, Little Saltee is not a place for mirth. No Maypoles nor circus antics. Especially not for Conor Finn...." In the 1800s, Little Saltee, an island off the coast of Ireland, had become widely known to those who were imprisoned there as "Hell." At the age of 14, ...

Flight: A Novel

Sherman Alexie

Grove Press, Black Cat, 2007

One of Alexie's Best
This book is a personal favorite of mine. Sherman Alexie never ceases to surprise, entertain, or inform me. This story is a fictional work that brings much needed attention to several issues including but not limited to race, class, child abuse, the astonishing rate ...

Microsoft Flight Simulator X For Pilots Real World Training

Jeff Van West, Kevin Lane-Cummings

Wiley, 2007

Make Your Hobby Take Flight !
I think based on the reviews below - you get the drift. Those reviews speak for themselves (and the book). I don't need to repeat every thing noted by the other reviewers. It's a great book and I learned more than I would have ever thought. Don't let the 800 ...

Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight

David A. Mindell

MIT Press, 2008

Computers in Space
While this book dwells more on computers than astronauts, it contains details from the actual moon landings that I've never seen published elsewhere. Despite contrary opinions by the astonauts, this book has convinced me that a 100% all-human landing (without ...

Touching History: The Untold Story of the Drama That Unfolded in the Skies Over America on 9/11

Lynn Spencer

Free Press, 2008

The view from the cockpit
On the morning of 9-11, our little Cessna was one of the thousands of dots on the radar screens of America, so as I later watched the horrific events in New York and Washington DC unfold, I couldn't help but wonder what other pilots were feeling and thinking as they ...

Military Flight Aptitude Tests, 6/e (Arco Military Test Tutor)

Wiener

Arco, 2004

Aptitude = Altitude
The ARCO Mikitary Test Tutor is amazing! It really helps, and the practice tests are amazing!

The Klutz Book of Paper Airplanes (Klutz)

Doug Stillinger

Klutz, 2004

The BEST Paper Airplane Book
I am a Science teacher I designed a Science Camp for the school district I work for. One of the days was devoted to the science of flight and we used paper airplanes as models. Originally, I had purchased 4 different paper airplane books (including this one). But, when ...

Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War II

Brendan I. Koerner

Penguin Press HC, The, 2008

Victims of Jim Crow
Among the many strange and sad tales of World War II, one of the most peculiar ones is that of Private Herman Perry, who died in the jungles of Burma, one of the Americans sent there for the expensive and doomed Ledo Road that was to link India and China. Perhaps his ...

Angels Flight (Harry Bosch)

Michael Connelly

Grand Central Publishing, 2000

Angel's Flight isn't about angels
The Margin I took a short hietus from Connelly's mysteries in favor of Stuart Woods. I like Woods and plan on reading all his work, but recently completed Michael Connelly's Angel's Flight and had to write this review. AF is another well researched police ...

Barron's Military Flight Aptitude Tests

Terry Duran

Barron's Educational Series, 2007

for AFOQT buy Barron's
If you are taking the AFOQT buy the Barron's study book. I just took the test (Feb 2008) and the Barron's practice exams are spot on. The only difference from the practice exam in Barron's and the real thing is that in the Table Reading section, it is one giant "x and ...

Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge: FAA-H-8083-25, December 2003 (FAA Handbooks series)

Federal Aviation Administration

Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc., 2004

A great digest of aviation basics
This book is definitely the best introductory book to the main aviation concepts I ever read. Each issue - from flight static and dynamics to FCS, propulsion, avionics and navigation, weather theory and influence, flight and ground operations - is considered in this ...

Failure is not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond

Gene Kranz

Berkley Trade, 2001

Living History and Inspiration for Our Times
Failure is not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond This book came highly reccommended by other teachers at Advanced Space Academy for Educators. It is a great companion to A Man on the Moon. Gene Kranz is an inspiration for us all. In ...

Taking Flight: Inspiration And Techniques To Give Your Creative Spirit Wings
Kelly Rae Roberts

North Light Books, 2008

Stretch Your Wings • Learn to Soar • Take Flight In Taking Flight, you’ll find overflowing inspiration—complete with a kindred spirit in author and mixed-media artist Kelly Rae Roberts. Join her on a fearless journey into the heart of creativity as you test your wings and learn to find the sacred in the ordinary, honor your memories, speak your ...

The Adventures of Tintin: The Castafiore Emerald, Flight 714, Tintin and the Picaros (3 Complete Adventures ...

Herge

Little, Brown Young Readers, 1997

Great comic book!
Tintin is a great comic book ... funny, witty, adventurous, and with clean language. These are classics! I used to read them growing up in Europe, and I am glad that I can have my children read them too.