Author: John M. CollinsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781580087261
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Provides instructions on basic origami folds to create a variety of paper airplanes.
The Gliding Flight
Author: John M. CollinsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781580087261
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Provides instructions on basic origami folds to create a variety of paper airplanes.
Understanding Gliding
Author: Derek PiggottPublisher: A & C Black
ISBN: 9780713643435
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Now in its third, updated edition, Understanding Gliding has become one of gliding's classic works. Piggott demonstrates that the basic priciples are not in fact complex, and he answers many of the common questions which are asked by new pilots.
Glider Flying Handbook
Author: Federal Aviation AdministrationPublisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1602390614
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
For both certified glider pilots and students attempting certification in the glider category, this is an unparalleled...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Flying and Gliding
Author: Bill LanePublisher:
ISBN: 9780028638850
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this guide, the authors trace the progress of aviation from the classic age to the fastest and largest of modern airliners presently operating. Opening the cockpit door they offer an insight into how pilots do their job.
How Do Hang Gliders Work?
Author: Jennifer BoothroydPublisher: Lerner Publications ™
ISBN: 154150593X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Would you want to swoop through the air like a bird? Riding a hang glider is a fun way to fly. But a hang glider has no motor. How does the pilot take off? How does the hang glider stay in the air? Learn the answers in this book!
On the Wing
Author: Dr. David E. AlexanderPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199996776
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
"On the Wing is the first book to take a comprehensive look at the evolution of flight in all four groups of powered flyers: insects, pterosaurs, birds, and bats."--Book jacket.
Flight
Author: Glider Basics
Author: Thomas KnauffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gliding and soaring
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Soaring and Gliding
Author: Jeffery P. SandmanPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439633061
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
To fly as the hawk and eagle has been mankinds dream for centuries. Modern sailplanes make soaring and gliding flight possible, and with them, humans can fly higher, faster, and farther than the greatest of birds, using only an invisible force of nature to stay aloft. The terms soaring and gliding are used interchangeably, and the sport is appealing to pilot and spectator alike. Sailplane enthusiasts have always been explorers, always looking for a more ideal site that will provide the intellectual challenges of soaring as well as the sheer beauty and relaxation the sport can offer. Michigan-based glider pilots and designers found their soaring paradise in the early 1930s when they ventured north to the Sleeping Bear Dunes area. The explorers began to promote the sport to national and international prominence, and many came to make up a veritable whos who of American aeronautics. Over a century after Octave Chanute discovered motorless flight on the Lake Michigan dunes, sailplanes, hang gliders, and paragliders still fill the skies.
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