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Soaring High : The Science and Wonders of Aeronautics

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From Kitty Hawk to the edge of space — a complete guide to the science, history, and future of flight.

What keeps a 900,000-pound aircraft in the air? How did humanity go from twelve seconds aloft at Kitty Hawk to landing spacecraft on drone ships in the ocean? And what comes next — electric jets, air taxis, hypersonic travel, missions to Mars?

Soaring High: The Science and Wonders of Aeronautics answers these questions in plain language that requires no engineering background, no pilot's lic...