Cleared for takeoff : the ultimate book of flight /
A compendium of flight chronicles aviation's most dangerous, exciting, and courageous moments, including such topics as aircraft carriers, songs about flying, airline callsigns, and the space shuttle.
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Table of Contents:
- Dreams of the birdmen: Icarus and his successors
- What goes up: how an airplane flies
- Airplane: the anatomy of an aircraft
- It's all hot air (part one): the story of ballooning
- If at first you don't succeed: strange shapes in the sky (part one)
- Heavier than air: the Wright brothers' first powered flight
- The red Baron: an introduction to Manfred von Richthofen
- Aviation origami: how to make a paper helicopter
- On the wing: barnstormers and flying circuses
- The spin doctors: twelve aerobatic maneuvers
- Across the pond: who was first to fly across the Atlantic?
- Who were you?: insignia of yesterday's Air Forces
- Romeo and Juliett: an introduction to the phonetic alphabet
- War minus the shooting: a history of air racing
- Chicken or beef?: the story of airline food
- Dead heat: the Zeppelin race
- How big?: how the sizes of different aircraft compare
- The wind beneath my wings: the story of gliding
- Great planes: Douglas DC-3
- Eye in the sky: the story of aerial reconnaissance
- Project cancelled: Republic XF-12 Rainbow
- Animal, vegetable or mineral?: a few things aircraft have been named after
- Corsairville: the rise and fall of the flying boat
- From CDG to LAX via THR: some of the better airport three-letter identifiers
- Great planes: supermarine Spitfire
- "Never, in the field of human conflict...": the Second World War in the air
- Ducks and drakes and bouncing bombs: how skipping stones inspired the dam busters
- Never coming home: RAF losses since 1945
- Project cancelled: Vickers Valiant B2 Pathfinder
- And then there were four: the disappearance of Britain"s aircraft manufacturers
- Paper plane: the perfect paper dart
- A dirty distant war: eleven significant air battles
- Great planes: North American P-51 Mustang
- Eject! eject! eject!: the unsung hero of the ejection seat
- Project cancelled: Martin-Baker MB5
- The Bermuda triangle: fact or fiction?
- Aliens among us?: the peculiar story of the Roswell flying saucer
- The right stuff: breaking the sound barrier
- F. A. B. Scott: a few island airbases
- Freight dogs: the story of air cargo
- Pigs in space: flying animals
- Putting out fire: the world of aerial firefighting
- Project cancelled: BAC TSR2
- Great planes: English Electric Canberra
- How many?: a few notable production runs
- Great planes: Lockheed C-130 Hercules
- Flying in a milk bottle: the story of polar aviation
- Meatbox, buff and shagbat: 101 aircraft nicknames
- A lot less bovver with a hover: the hovercraft story
- Rocket man: the story of John Stapp
- Don't touch that button!: the aircraft cockpit
- In search of Dan Dare: British rocketplanes
- "Talk to me, goose": some fictional pilots
- Who are you?: insignia of today's Air Forces
- "The first time I ever saw a jet I shot it down": fighter combat during the jet age
- It seemed like a good idea at the time: a different sort of nuclear bomber
- Project cancelled: Martin P6M seamaster
- Great planes: Bell UH-1 Uroquois
- Whirlybirds: the brief history of helicopters
- Chopper: the anatomy of a helicopter
- Beating the air into submission: how a helicopter flies
- Those magnificent men in their flying machines: fifteen flying films
- Great planes: McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II
- "Indian ocean. present day.": how aircraft carriers work
- Batsmen and paddles: the art of the landing deck officer
- Project cancelled: Fairey Rotodyne
- All around the world: which countries make their own aircraft?
- Project cancelled: Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow
- Great planes: Boeing 707
- I'm leaving on a jet plane: air travel for everyone
- A hell of a pick-me-up: the story of the Fulton Skyhook
- The art of compromise: four different wing shapes
- Project cancelled: North American XB-70 Valkyrie.
- It's all hot air (part two): Felix Baumgartner raises the bar
- Pukin dogs and Jolly Rogers: US navy fighter squadrons
- Flying without wings: the lifting body story
- Great planes: North American X-15
- Fast, faster, fastest: rise, fall and rise of the rocketplane
- You're a record breaker!: the world air-speed record
- Don't stop me now: some songs about flying
- Great planes: Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
- High as a kite: how high do things fly?
- Of our bombers is missing: the birth of the stealth fighter
- Who wanted Concorde?: how the world nearly turned supersonic
- Aurora: the secret spyplane. or not
- Project cancelled: Northrop YF-23
- Great planes: Hawker Siddeley Harrier
- The Caspian Sea monster: the rise and fall of the ekranoplan
- Tactically sound: the unrealized dream of the airborne aircraft carrier
- Turbo dog and critter: a few notable airline callsigns
- The runway code: how to park an airliner
- Great planes: Boeing 747 jumbo jet
- Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough: the world's biggest air forces
- The world's favorite airline: who's the biggest?
- Anything, anywhere, anytime: a few airlines you may not have heard of
- "Get off my plane!": the story of Air Force One
- Great planes: Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde
- Wheels with wings: the dream of the flying car
- There once was an ugly duckling: strange shapes in the sky (part two) .
- The Reds: formations of the red arrows
- Is it a bird, is it a plane?: a guide to superhero flight
- The Gimli glider: when an airliner runs out of gas
- The final frontier: how high do spacemen fly?
- Great planes: Rockwell international space shuttle orbiter
- Project cancelled: Buran
- The brilliant bottle rocket: how to make a water rocket
- You'll believe a man can fly: how to levitate. Or look like you can. sort of
- Bird is the word: some avian superlatives
- Word on a wing: a few books about flying
- The rise of the machines: a brief introduction to drones.