Find Out About Flight: With 18 projects and more than 240 pictures

by Peter Mellett

Overview

A lively and accessible introduction to every aspect of flight, in both machines and the animal kingdom - including wings and lift, air resistance, and gliding and soaring, Features 18 hands-on experiments to help you really find out for yourself - make a miniature plane and a hot-air balloon, construct a kite, and build models to demonstrate how birds fly and how jet engines work, More than 240 pictures include step-by-step photographs and explanatory diagrams, A fascinating fact file and learn-it-yourself project book, perfect for 8- to 12-year-olds for home or school use

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781843228691
Publisher:	Armadillo
Publication date:	06/15/2013
Pages:	64
Product dimensions:	8.10(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

Table of Contents

What is flight? 4

Wings and lift 6

Make a flying model 8

Air resistance 10

Streamlining and shape 12

Gliding and soaring 14

Kites and sails 16

Make a kite 18

Lighter than air 20

Make a hot-air balloon 22

Birds in flight 24

How birds fly 26

Insect wings 28

Amazing flying animals 30

Prehistoric flyers 32

Aircraft wings 34

Flying an aircraft 36

Make a model plane 38

Propellers 40

Make a propeller 42

Jet engines 44

Jets and turbines 46

Breaking the sound barrier 48

Going up 50

Strange aircraft 52

Flying through water 54

Rockets and spaceflight 56

Make a rocket 58

The history of flight 60

Flight into the future 62

Index 64