How to Build a Plane

How to Build a Plane
Author: Martin Sodomka
Publisher: Walter Foster Jr
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-09-14
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781633220416

Learn about flying and teamwork as three unlikely friends work to build a miniature airplane. In How to Build a Plane, three unlikely friends--Eli, a mouse; Phoebe, a sparrow; and Hank, a frog--decide to build a small plane together. The story follows the friendly trio as they learn all about how a plane flies and how it is constructed. Detailed illustrations show the inner workings of a plane, teaching children the basics of how each part works together to get the plane flying. Through hard work and perseverance, Eli, Phoebe, and Hank learn about both planes and teamwork. With the help of this sweet story, children will learn how airplanes stay up in the air, how a pilot controls the plane, what an aircraft engine looks like, and much more.

How To Build Brick Airplanes

How To Build Brick Airplanes
Author: Peter Blackert
Publisher: Motorbooks
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2018-10-02
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0760361657

How to Build Brick Airplanes puts the power of the world's most fearsome jets in your hands—learn how to build the SR-71, the P38 Lightning, the B2 bomber, and more, from LEGO bricks. Grab some bricks, because it's time to get building! How to Build Brick Airplanes is loaded with clear, easy-to-follow designs for creating contemporary and classic jets, warbirds, bombers, and more using nothing more than bricks found in many common LEGO sets. More than just simple, generic recreations, the planes here are all scale models of their real-world counterparts. How to Build Brick Airplanes opens with simpler designs, before working up to more detailed builds. This vivid, user-friendly, and fun title is sure to bring hours of joy and airborne wonder to LEGO fans across the globe, whether you're an aviation enthusiast, LEGO lover, or looking for a project to share with little ones of your own. LEGO is the world's #1 toy company. The adults who grew up building LEGO City and Spaceports are now passing their old sets on to their children—and a new generation of LEGO builders has emerged, along with a rabid online community and celebrated custom builders.

How to Build Aircraft

How to Build Aircraft
Author: Rita Storey
Publisher: Technology in Motion
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2016-12
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780778733843

Take to the skies with How to Build Aircraft. Featuring simple step-by-step instructions, handy templates, vibrant photographs, and easily accessible materials, this title shows readers how to build their very own aircraft that can really fly! Projects include a hot-air balloon, roto-copter, a variety of gliders, and many more.

Bored - Nothing to Do!

Bored - Nothing to Do!
Author: Peter Spier
Publisher:
Total Pages: 46
Release: 1979
Genre: Boredom
ISBN: 9780437765130

On a lazy afternoon, two bored brothers keep themselves busy by building and flying an airplane.

The LEGO Architecture Idea Book

The LEGO Architecture Idea Book
Author: Alice Finch
Publisher: No Starch Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2018-09-25
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1593278217

Take your creations to the next level with The LEGO Architecture Idea Book! These clever building tips will give you endless inspiration for making your own amazing mansions, castles, houses, spooky shacks, and more. Every chapter includes ideas for creating architectural elements like columns, doors, windows, and walls. But rather than providing step-by-step instructions, the book includes helpful photography from every angle that shows you how to achieve the look, adapt it to your build, and make it your own. Learn how to: - Build amazing walls that break the mold, with brick-and-mortar effects, weathered walls, and loose bricks - Recreate structural effects like timber framing, soaring towers and turrets, shingled roofs,clapboard siding, and more - Elevate your models with “stained glass”, intricate color patterns, and tumble-down wear-and-tear - Use pieces like croissants, snakes, and goblets to make unique architectural ornamentation Bursting with clever ideas, The LEGO Architecture Idea Book will show you how to turn your buildings into impressive, realistic structures.

Kids' Paper Airplane Book

Kids' Paper Airplane Book
Author: Ken Blackburn
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Total Pages: 150
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780761104780

Provides information on the principles of aerodynamics, suggestions for designing airplanes, and instructions for folding paper planes and doing stunts and playing games with them.

Make a Paper Airplane

Make a Paper Airplane
Author: Cathy French
Publisher: Benchmark Education Company
Total Pages: 20
Release: 2010
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1616725575

Introduction to Aircraft Flight Mechanics

Introduction to Aircraft Flight Mechanics
Author: Thomas R. Yechout
Publisher: AIAA
Total Pages: 666
Release: 2003
Genre: Aerodynamics
ISBN: 9781600860782

Based on a 15-year successful approach to teaching aircraft flight mechanics at the US Air Force Academy, this text explains the concepts and derivations of equations for aircraft flight mechanics. It covers aircraft performance, static stability, aircraft dynamics stability and feedback control.

The Kerbal Player's Guide

The Kerbal Player's Guide
Author: Jon Manning
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Total Pages: 427
Release: 2016-11-10
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1491913495

Kerbal Space Program (KSP) is a critically acclaimed, bestselling space flight simulator game. It’s making waves everywhere from mainstream media to the actual space flight industry, but it has a bit of a learning curve. In this book, five KSP nerds—including an astrophysicist—teach you everything you need to know to get a nation of tiny green people into space. KSP is incredibly realistic. When running your space program, you’ll have to consider delta-V budgets, orbital mechanics, Hohmann transfers, and more. This book is perfect for video game players, simulation game players, Minecrafters, and amateur astronomers. Design, launch, and fly interplanetary rockets Capture an asteroid and fly it into a parking orbit Travel to distant planets and plant a flag Build a moon rover, and jump off a crater ridge Rescue a crew-mate trapped in deep space