Cleared for Takeoff: The Ultimate Book of Flight

by Rowland White

All of aviation's dangerous, exciting, and most courageous moments are featured within this stunning compendium on flight. Packed with stories of heroic and innovative pioneers, fascinating profiles of remarkable planes from Spitfires to space shuttles, and how-to instructions for making everything from origami helicopters to bottle rockets--all accompanied by sensational photographs, illustrations, and diagrams-- Cleared for Takeoff promises to astonish,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1452135509
• ISBN13: 9781452135502
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 2.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.2" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 11 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 12