Every Kid Needs Things That Fly! - Softcover

Kinmont, Ritchie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1586855093 ISBN 13: 9781586855093

Publisher: Gibbs Smith, 2005

Synopsis

Shows parents and kids how to create cool airborne projects together--including a blinking UFO, a hot-air balloon, and a water-bottle rocket--through step-by-step instructions, illustrations, shopping and supply lists, and recommended tools lists. Original.

About this title

About the Author

Ritchie Kinmont is a designer of industrial assembly machinery for an automotive company. His lifelong passion is tinkering in his workshop where his favorite projects are those he can do with his three young sons. Some of his inventions have been marketed through a major toy company. Ritchie earned his pilot's license while still a teenager and now shares his love of aviation and inventing with his sons. He lives in Utah.

From the Back Cover

The sky is no longer the limit! Parents and kids can make flying projects such as:
" A craft stick air force-from WWII bombers to military transport helicopters.
" Masking tape airports complete with runways
" Blinking UFOs that hover and land
" Parachutes for action figures, with launch platform
" Hot air balloons that use appliances around the house
" Realistic jetpacks with real moving parts
" Water bottle rockets that shoot more than 150 feet in the air

From the Inside Flap

Think your kid is an ace in the making? Feel you have a pilot in training? Written especially for the child who dreams of soaring above the clouds (or just likes to build cool stuff), Every Kid Needs Things That Fly teaches parents and kids how to get flying with hands-on projects like airplane control panels and high-flying balloons to water bottle rockets, real UFOs, and more. Each of the twenty projects has detailed step-by-step photographs and illustrations that will enable you to let your imagination-fueled fun. Begin by building your own workbench and end up shooting rockets to the moon (or at least really, really high!). From building a fleet of popsicle stick aircrafts to constructing a realistic jet pack, Every Kid Needs Things That Fly gives parents and kids the tools and instructions they need to go where no one has gone before!

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When I was a little boy, my heroes were Wilbur and Orville Wright. They lived over a hundred years ago, before there were any airplanes. As boys, they liked to tinker around in their workshop, and I loved to tinker at my workbench. They were bicycle mechanics, and I loved mechanical things. They built and flew airplanes before anybody else knew how, and I loved things that fly.

I've studied the Wright brothers and I've learned some interesting things about them. They were very curious and always wanted to know how things worked. They had powerful imaginations and could see things in their minds that didn't exist yet. The Wright brothers were also very creative and they could make amazing things out of ordinary things.

Orville and Wilbur's parents liked it when their children made things, and they were always helping them find answers to their questions. Their mother knew how to use tools because her father was a carriage-maker. She made toys for the boys and taught them to use tools. One day, Mr. Wright brought home a toy for them to play with. It was a stick with a propeller on it, wound up with a rubber band. It flew like a helicopter, except there were no helicopters then. Orville and Wilbur played with the flying toy until it wore out. Then they figured out how to make flying toys of their own.

When the Wright brothers were older, they had a bicycle shop. They designed a better bicycle than anyone had thought of. Lots of people bought their bicycles. When they were grown men, they wanted to learn how to make real flying machines. No one had been able to make a good one yet-one that could be controlled so the pilot could steer it. No one had figured out how to make a flying machine stay in the air for more than a few seconds. But Orville and Wilbur wanted to make one with an engine on it. So they got to work building engines and flying machine parts.

On a winter day in North Carolina, more than a hundred years ago, the Wright brothers were successful-they made a flying machine that actually flew! Imagination and hard work make their dream come true.

The next time you see an airplane in the sky, think about two curious boys who kept asking questions, kept learning all they could, and kept trying again and again until they figured out how to make great things that fly.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gibbs Smith
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1586855093
• ISBN 13: 9781586855093
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136