Flying Boats and Spies
Gramma Trixie’s Review I loved this book. It took me back to my youth, reminding me of the excitement we felt in the age of flying ships. When I was a girl we would wait for hours to see one land, never knowing for sure what time it would arrive, listening expectantly for the first distant drone of engines that would signal her arrival. Then the graceful majesty as she touches down, the spray, the sound. Arriving from afar in...
Junior Pilot Adventures
Gramma Trixie’s Review This is a beautiful book. Not too long and yet what I really liked about it was that you felt you had been somewhere and seen something. Aviation is about experiences and the two young pilots, Tshepo and Jonathon, have plenty. Their experience are just part-and-parcel of flying life, and that is really the essence of this book. It is a taste of a day in the flying life, with all its ups and downs. Junior...
Claire Bear’s First Solo
This book is for 3-8 year olds, and describes the most important journey any pilot ever makes… their first flight by themselves. Here’s some comments to the author from someone who read the book… I asked my 7 year old daughter to read me Claire’s First Solo this morning. It really is a delightful book, and not what I expected from the cover. Your use of actual pilot words was interesting, both for being new...
Feel The Lift
Warning This experiment involves sticking your hand out the window of a moving car. This may be ILLEGAL in some countries, and should only ever be done where safe and with the permission of the driver of the car. Experiment 1: Feel the Lift A very simple experiment next time you are in a car allows you to feel the power of lift, and understand hour the ANGLE that a wing meets the air determines the amount of LIFT, and DRAG, produced....
John, The Airport Kid
John’s is a simple story, as many in life are, of a youth becoming a man, of a time learning to fly, and of becoming one with machines and the sky. Ever think that long-loved aircraft might have stories to tell? With enough attention and respect for these creatures of the air, so much more than metal and fabric, perhaps you will hear. “John, the Airport Kid” combines the love of airplanes, the ethic of a hard...
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