Books like Flight by Robert Burleigh

Presents in question and answer format the history of flight from man's first attempts to fly to the development of supersonic planes.

An illustrated book of projects demonstrating the properties of flight.

Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behaviour follows a mother on the Appalachian mountains whose discovery of a natural marvel sparks a crisis that forces her community to confront poverty, class and climate change.

A fictionalized account of Amelia Earhart's dangerous 1932 flight across the Atlantic Ocean from Newfoundland to Ireland, in which she survived bad weather and a malfunctioning airplane. Includes a brief biography of the aviator.

"The twenty-first century has relegated airplane flight--a once remarkable feat of human ingenuity--to the realm of the mundane. When most people today think of flying, they imagine tedious routines that involve security checkpoints, exorbitant baggage fees, shrinking legroom, and frustrating delays. Mark Vanhoenacker, a 747 pilot who gave up careers in academia and the business world to pursue his childhood dream of flight, asks us to re-imagine what we--both as pilots and as passengers--are actually doing when we enter the world between departure and discovery. In a seamless fusion of history, politics, geography, meteorology, ecology, family, and physics, the author vaults across geographical and cultural boundaries, above mountains, oceans, and deserts, through snow, wind, and rain, limning a simultaneously humbling and almost superhuman activity which can afford us unparalleled perspectives on the planet we inhabit and the communities we form"--

A kid‑friendly biography of Louis Bleriot, the pioneering French aviator whose Bleriot XI glides the English Channel in 1909, inspiring youngsters to explore flying and engineering.