04729cam a2200433 i 4500 1506309879 TxAuBib 20240820120000.0 230814t20232022||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023939315 9780500653418 0500653410 (OCoLC)1400106688 TxAuBib rda eng pol Ambrożewski, Jacek, author. Sky high! : a soaring history of aviation / Jacek Ambrożewski ; translated by Zosia Krasodomska-Jones. Soaring history of aviation. New York : Thames and Hudson, 2023. ©2022. 105 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 37 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier Includes index. "Originally published in 2022 under the title Ale odlot! Rysunkowa historia lotnictwa by Wydawnictwo Dwie Siostry, Warsaw"--Title page verso. Whirlybirds and spinning seeds : plants' airborne adventures -- Animals in the air : flying and gliding creatures -- Born to fly : the world of birds -- Flying fantasies : famous fliers from myth and legend -- Steam pigeons and borrowed wings : early attempts at flying -- Lighter than air : the Montgolfier brothers' balloons -- Silk birds and flying boxes : Lawrence Hargrave's box kites -- Getting off the ground : the pioneers of aviation -- A hop, a skip and a jump : the Lilienthal brothers and other glider pilots -- Two trailblazers : the Wright brothers and the first plane -- The art of piloting : how to control a plane, then and now -- Monoplane, biplane, triplane : the planes of the First World War -- Aerial tennis and wing walks : aerobatics and flying circuses -- The Tin Goose : the Ford Trimotor and early passenger planes -- Great Transatlantic expeditions : four top aviators and their kit (John Alcock & Arthur Brown, Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, Stanislaw Skarżyński) -- Flying windmills : Juan de la Cierva's gyroplane -- Clocks and dials : the De Havilland Tiger Moth and basic flight instruments -- Water racers : The Supermarine S.6 and flying races -- Sky giants : The LZ 129 Hindenburg and the golden age of airships -- Ships with wings : the Boeing 314 Clipper and flying boats -- Whirling blades : the origins of the helicopter -- On your marks, jet set, go! : the first jet aircraft -- Deadly planes : bombers of the Second World War -- Speedier than sound : the Bell X-1 -- Tailsitters : the Snecma C.450 Coléoptère and other experimental aircraft -- Rotor revolutions : alternative helicopter designs -- Titanium blackbird : the Lockheed SR-71 and pressure suits -- The mechanical hawk : the Hawker Siddeley Harrier and aircraft carriers -- Plane and simple : general aviation and the Cessna 172 -- Do it yourself : homebuilt kit planes -- A breath of hot air : modern hot air balloons -- Flying jellyfish : hang gliders, parafoils and paragliders -- A plane with a hump : the Boeing 747 jumbo jet -- A truck with wings : the Boeing 747 cargo -- Supersonic harmony : Concorde -- Pedal power : the Gossamer Albatross and human-powered aircraft -- Falling with style : gliders and thermal columns -- Head-spinningly fast : the MIG-29 and air force pilot training -- How do you design a plane? : the Rutan Voyager -- Learning to fly : flight simulators and the Airbus A320 cockpit -- Safety on board : why there's no need to be afraid of flying -- Invisible aircraft : the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit and stealth technology -- Plane or helicopter? : the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey -- Choose your chopper : modern helicopters -- The multitasker : the Lockheed C-130 Hercules -- Water bombers and hurricane hunters : specialist planes -- Further, faster, cheaper : the Boeing 787 Dreamliner -- Busy bees : unmanned aerial vehicles, better known as drones -- The sun-seeker : the Solar Impulse 2 and its around-the-world-tour. This charming history of aviation covers every contraption that flies in one spectacular comic album about our conquest of the skies. 20240820. In English, translated from the Polish. Aeronautics History Juvenile literature. Flight History Juvenile literature. Krasodomska-Jones, Zosia, translator. TXKIP