DK EYEWITNESS: FLIGHT (HB)

An essential guide to the history and science of one of humanity's most incredible achievements. Young readers will pore over photography and fascinating facts, exploring aircraft from Leonardo da Vinci's wing machines to jet airliners, as well as helicopters, gliders, zeppelins, monoplanes, biplanes and triplanes. Learn how technology made flight possible, which tools pilots use, and how taking to the skies has shaped human history. This revised edition features a fresh look, new photographs, updated information, stories of leading figures, and a giant fold-out poster ideal for the bedroom or classroom wall.