Inflight Science: A Guide to the World from Your Airplane Window

The perfect companion to any flight — a guide to the science on view from your window seat

There are few times when science is so immediate as when you're in a plane. Your life is in the hands of the scientists and engineers who enable tons of metal and plastic to hurtle through the sky at hundreds of miles an hour. Inflight Science shows how you stay alive up there — but that's only the beginning.

Brian Clegg explains the ever changing view, whether it's crop circles or clouds, mountains or...