How Do Hang Gliders Work?

How Do Hang Gliders Work?
Author: Jennifer Boothroyd
Publisher: Lerner Publications ™
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2017-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 154150593X

Would you want to swoop through the air like a bird? Riding a hang glider is a fun way to fly. But a hang glider has no motor. How does the pilot take off? How does the hang glider stay in the air? Learn the answers in this book!

How Do Hang Gliders Work?

How Do Hang Gliders Work?
Author: Jennifer Boothroyd
Publisher: Lerner Digital ™
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2017-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1512466085

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Would you want to swoop through the air like a bird? Riding a hang glider is a fun way to fly. But a hang glider has no motor. How does the pilot take off? How does the hang glider stay in the air? Learn the answers in this book!

Glider Flying Handbook

Glider Flying Handbook
Author: Federal Aviation Administration
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2007-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1602390614

For both certified glider pilots and students attempting certification in the glider category, this is an unparalleled...

Harry and the Hang Glider

Harry and the Hang Glider
Author: Randall Kerchill
Publisher: Sky High Pub
Total Pages:
Release: 1998
Genre: Hang gliding
ISBN: 9781890514525

A cottontail rabbit named Harry finds a hang glider in the Arizona desert and returns it to the owner. He is rewarded with flying lessons and must learn about the equipment, practice hard, and take a test before actually hang gliding.

Catching Air: Taking the Leap with Gliding Animals (How Nature Works)

Catching Air: Taking the Leap with Gliding Animals (How Nature Works)
Author: Sneed B. Collard
Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2017-03-28
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0884485390

*Junior Library Guild Selection 2017* Only a few dozen vertebrate animals have evolved true gliding abilities, but they include an astonishing variety of mammals, reptiles, and amphibians. North America’s flying squirrels and Australia’s sugar gliders notwithstanding, the vast majority of them live in rainforests. Illustrated with arresting photographs, Catching Air takes us around the world to meet these animals, learn why so many gliders live in Southeast Asia, and find out why this gravity-defying ability has evolved in Draco lizards, snakes, and frogs as well as mammals. Why do gliders stop short of flying, how did bats make that final leap, and how did Homo sapiens bypass evolution to glide via wingsuits and hang gliders—or is that evolution in another guise? Fountas & Pinnell Level R

How Do Hot Air Balloons Work?

How Do Hot Air Balloons Work?
Author: Buffy Silverman
Publisher: Lerner Publications ™
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2017-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1541505972

Hot air balloons are huge and colorful. They're lots of fun to watch. But how do they fly? And how do people control where the hot air balloon goes? Read this book to find out!

Flying with Condors

Flying with Condors
Author: Judy Leden
Publisher: Orion Publishing Company
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1996
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780752801339

Three times Judy Leden has been the champion of the world—twice in hang gliding and once in paragliding—and 6 times British Women's Champion. In Patagonia, she realized her dream of flying wing-tip to wing-tip with Andean condors. This is her autobiography.

How Do Parachutes Work?

How Do Parachutes Work?
Author: Jennifer Boothroyd
Publisher: Lerner Publications ™
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2017-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1541506014

Parachutes can be used for emergency landings. But they can also be used for flying fun! Who packs a parachute? And how does its light fabric keep you afloat? Discover the answers inside this book!