Soar into the high-flying world of aircraft with this picture-packed, fact-filled book. Eyewitness Flight is an essential guide to the history and science of humanity's most incredible feat: flying! Young readers will pour over stunning photography, alongside fascinating facts, of aircraft from Leonardo da Vinci's wing machines to jet airliners, as well as helicopters, gliders, zeppelins, monoplanes, biplanes, and even triplanes. Learn how technology made flight possible, which tools pilots use, and how our ability to take to the skies has shaped human history.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.