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From School Library Journal
Adult/High School-This brief and colorful history of flight begins with the first Chinese kites that flourished around 300 B.C.E. and ends with contemporary space shuttles. The authors explain how World War I was the catalyst to transform aircraft into weapons' carriers, and include several examples of military planes, such as the Bell X-1, the North American P-51 Mustang, and the Boeing F-15 Eagle. There is a section of hints on paper-airplane construction and advice on how to adjust the reproductions for optimum flight. More than half of the book is comprised of patterns that follow the fascinating text and illustrations; they are designed to be cut out and assembled, but they can be traced, cut out, and retraced onto heavy paper like the kind used in the book. This is a good title for bringing military and aviation history to life, and to inspire teens enrolled in beginning engineering and physics classes to create their own aviation designs.
Joyce Fay Fletcher, Rippon Middle School, Prince William County, VA
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Description
The Spirit of St. Louis. The P-51 Mustang. The Fokker Dr.I riplane, once famously painted red by Baron Manfred von Richthofen. These planes are just a few of the milestones of flight-now re-created as replica models by master paper airplane engineers Ken Blackburn and Jeff Lammers, authors of The World Record Paper Airplane Book, Kids' Paper Airplane Book, and Pocket Flyers Paper Airplane Book, together with a soaring 1.6 million copies in print.

Combining the passion for aviation and love for making paper airplanes, the Aviation Legends Paper Airplane Book offers easy-to-make, easy-to-fly, accurate models of 12 historically important planes. There are at least two full-color copies of each plane-one for flying, one for show-plus fold-up stands to display them. The book is like a greatest hits of powered aviation: The Wright Flyer. The 1935 DC-3 Douglas Sleeper Transport, which revolutionized commercial travel. The Rutan/Yeager Voyager, the only aircraft to have flown around the world without refueling. Complete with time lines, history, trivia, stats, and specs, it's the glory of aviation, all ready to make and fly.

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toss angled, bend the rudder, paper clip over the nose, glue fuselage, entire front edge, unwanted turn, plane veers, sure wings, nose weights, plane dives, heavy solid lines, fold wings Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World War, United States, New York, Soviet Union, Red Baron, Atlantic Ocean, Edwards Air Force Base, Flight Fact, Kitty Hawk, Korean War, Charles Lindbergh New!
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