Flight Test Lab: Airplanes

Kramer, Jackie, and Arden, Stuart

ISBN 10: 1592230245 / ISBN 13: 9781592230242

Published by Silver Dolphin, San Diego, CA, 2003

About this Item

33 pages. Illustrations. Diagrams. Glossary of Airplane Terms; Title on front cover: Pilot Handbook: The Science and Technology of Airplanes. This combination book and model kit taps into kids' enduring interest in airplanes by bringing them into the hangar for a tour of how planes work, and then into the planes themselves for a pilot's eye view of what it's like to soar. Clear explanations of concepts like the law of motion are here, along with discussions of flying pioneers. But how about actually creating a plane? This book comes with all the parts needed for assembling actual flying airplanes--even a battery-powered propeller winder! Kids learn to build a jumbo jet, a sleek and sporty private aircraft, a fighter jet, and a sturdy bush plane. Good. No dust jacket as issued.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Flight Test Lab: Airplanes
• Publisher: Silver Dolphin, San Diego, CA
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1592230245
• ISBN 13: 9781592230242
• Binding: Wraps

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Synopsis

This combination book and model kit taps into kids' enduring interest in airplanes by bringing them into the hangar for a tour of how planes work, and then into the planes themselves for a pilot's eye view of what it's like to soar. Clear explanations of concepts like the law of motion are here, along with discussions of flying pioneers. But how about actually creating a plane? This book comes with all the parts needed for assembling actual flying airplanes ? even a battery-powered propeller winder! Kids learn to build a jumbo jet, a sleek and sporty private aircraft, a fighter jet, and a sturdy bush plane.