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McGraw-Hill Professional
Language
English
Description
A fully updated edition of the classic book that's helped aviators take off for more than a quarter century! Written in an easy-to-understand style by a noted aviation expert, Your Pilot's License, 8th Edition offers practical advice to help would-be aviators understand the demands and pleasures of earning a pilot's license. The book now offers expanded information on obtaining a sport flying license and certification.Your Pilot's License, 8th Edition...
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Language
English
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Imagine you're sitting next to a pilot on a flight and he's eager to answer all those nagging questions you have about air travel. Are those bumps and noises normal? Why are some take-offs delayed? What happens if there's a storm? How does this plane stay in the air, anyway?
In From the Flight Deck: Plane Talk and Sky Science, pilot, meteorologist, and flight-school instructor Doug Morris lets you take the window seat on a trip around the world, giving...
Author
Publisher
Compass Point Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses the duties and responsibilities of an airline pilot, the education and training needed, the different types of careers available, famous pilots, and the history of flight, and chronicles a day in the life of a pilot.
49) Dinosoaring
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Publisher
Harcourt Children's Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
When dinosaurs go flying in an airplane and attempt to do stunts, they soon tire of the adventure and seek other, more stable pursuits.
52) Nothing but sky
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Publisher
Flux
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Grace Lafferty, an eighteen-year-old wing-walker, thrills crowds with barrel rolls and loop-the-loops in hopes of making enough money to get to the 1922 World Aviation Expo"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Nick Flynn novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
After a CIA covert mission goes badly awry, U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Nicholas Flynn is exiled to guard a remote radar post along Alaska's Arctic frontier. When an American F-22 collides with one of the Russian interlopers, things go south fast - in seconds, missiles are fired. The Kremlin is hunting for the first prototype of its new stealth bomber - which vanished while loaded with nuclear-armed stealth cruise missiles. As Russia and the...
Author
Series
Clorinda the cow books volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Using determination and vision, Clorinda the cow and her friend Hop the pig build a variety of flying machines, hoping to fulfill her desire to take flight.
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Publisher
Random House
Language
English
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"Of all people who might have solved the problem of human flight, few would have suspected Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, a fusty, old-school member of the Wurrtemburg nobility, recently ousted from the German military and convinced that a flying machine will be his ticket back to military glory. Instead, by the dawn of the twentieth century, he creates something much bigger: a system of flight that embodies the cutting edge of multiple sciences and...
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