Product Description: This title explores the development and use of the versatile AH-64D Apache Longbow attach helicopter. Readers will follow the history of its origins, from the AH-56 Cheyenne to the AH-64. Chapters detail the aircrafts military and performance specifications as well as its features and advantages in the field, such as its Northrop Grumman millimeter-wave Longbow radar, its two turboshaft engines, and its powerful guns and missiles...read more

Product Description: "Provides a historical overview of military technology, from the earliest weapons to medieval fortresses and to today's modern weapons and warfare strategies. Includes the progression of lock technology from skeleton keys to today's retinal scans"--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: From the worst plane accident in history on Tenerife to America's worst air crash at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, this engrossing volume covers many of the most famous aircraft disasters in history and their investigations...read more

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Since the first secret presidential flight of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1943, air travel has played an important role in the story of the American presidency. Step aboard Air Force One for a rare behind-the-scenes look.

Product Description: Did you know that the President of the United States gets his own airplane? Thats Air Force One! Its a custom-made plane with special areas few people have ever seen, but we can take a look inside with this book. Readers will learn the history of presidential airplanes, check out the different sections of the plane, and even learn fun facts about the name Air Force One...read more

Examines the lives of the Wright brothers and discusses their experiments and triumphs in the field of flight.

Describes the development of airplanes over the years and provides information about various models while focusing on those characteristics which promote speed in flight.

Product Description: This addition to the visually stimulating Sci-Hi series looks at the application of science and new technologies to all sorts of aircraft, from military jets airliners to gliders and airships, and how they affect our lives. It looks at new materials, discoveries, and inventions, and assesses their environmental impact...read more

Product Description: Aircraft carriers are gigantic ships that thousands of people call home. These huge floating cities have their own barbershops and are used to move people and planes all around the world. Readers will love exploring the decks of these monstrous military machines, learning how planes take off and land on the flight deck, and how everything is controlled from the island...read more

Product Description: This high-interest volume introduces readers to the exciting world of World War II aircraft. Through detailed diagrams of cockpits, engines, and weapons systems, readers are given a birds-eye view inside an impressive collection of World War II aircraft, including the United States P-51D Mustang, which shot down more enemy aircraft than any other Allied fighter plane...read more

This book introduces the history of the invention of airplanes, including Leonardo da Vinci’s ornithopter, Joseph-Michel and Jacque-Étienne Montgolfier’s hot air balloons, Sir George Cayley and Otto Lilienthal’s work with gliders, Orville and Wilbur Wright’s first flight, Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart’s flights across the Atlantic, and the work of modern record breakers Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager. Other chapters delve into airplane parts, from wings and ailerons to landing gear and jet engines, as well as how these parts along with concepts such as lift, gravity, thrust, and drag help keep an airplane flying. Fun facts discuss black boxes, autopilot, and the requirements for a U.S. pilot’s license. Other sections cover regimes of flight, mach numbers, and different kinds of airplanes, such as monoplanes, biplanes, floatplanes, and sailplanes, as well as the pilots, crews, flight attendants, and airport workers who run this form of transportation. The book also addresses the airplane’s impact on society as swift carriers of passengers and products, as well as disease and pollution. Full-color photographs, informative diagrams, glossary words in bold, a graphic timeline, and an index enhance this engaging, easy-to-read text about airplanes, an everyday invention that makes travel faster and puts the world at our fingertips. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

Describes the voyage of Apollo 11, its three astronauts, and details of the mission that put the first man on the moon in 1969.

Product Description: Are we alone? Or could life on alien worlds really exist? David A. Aguilar, space artist extraordinaire, shows readers what creatures living on extrasolar planets might be like, using real science and stunning otherworldly illustration...read more

Examines the legends and folklore surrounding aliens from other worlds, and discusses their appearances in literature, motion pictures, and video games.

Product Description: Have you ever heard of the “Mercury 13” women? Did you know that nearly twenty years before the first women were let into NASA’s astronaut program, there were others who tried?What are the requirements for being shot into space, piloting a hunk of metal while carrying the hopes and fears of your nation? Mastery of flying, as well as courage, intelligence, resistance to stress, and fitness―any checklist would certainly include these...read more

Product Description: Dozens of astronauts travel to space every year, but what makes these amazing trips possible? Max Axiom has the answers. Join Max as he explores the science and engineering behind space travel.