Download or read book Giant Jumbo Jets written by Marie Rogers and published by 'The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc'. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can something as big as a jumbo jet get up into the air, let alone fly through the sky? Readers will discover how engineers design huge airplanes so they can fly, even though some are too big for most airports. Readers will learn how much cargo and how many people they can hold. Those interested in transportation and machines can study full-color photographs and marvel at the technological beauty of a jumbo jet.
Download or read book DK Big Book of Airplanes written by Caroline Bingham and published by DK Children. This book was released on 2001 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the features, history, and capabilities of old and new airplanes.
Download or read book Super Jumbo Jets written by Holly Cefrey and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2001-12-15 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will give students an understanding of the history of flight right up to the technology and scientific discoveries that allow us to fly planes as large as today's super jumbo jets. How are airplanes designed so they can operate safely? What is the future of flight? All of these questions and more will be answered as students take a look at super jumbo jets, inside and out!
Download or read book Freaky big Airplanes written by Meish Goldish and published by Bearport Publishing. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the world’s biggest, most awesome airplanes! From immense passenger jets to king-sized cargo planes, the aircraft featured in this book all share one quality—they’re HUGE! Dazzling photos combined with fascinating information will engage kids as they learn all about these super-huge machines.
Download or read book Jumbo written by Chris Gall and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the 50th anniversary of the Boeing 747’s first commercial flight, a picture book about the development of the iconic passenger plane and how it changed the history of air travel. In 1968, the biggest passenger jet the world had ever seen premiered in Everett, Washington. The giant plane was called the Boeing 747, but reporters named it “the Jumbo jet.” There was only one problem. It couldn’t fly. Yet. Jumbo details the story of the world’s first wide body passenger jet, which could hold more people than any other plane at the time and played a pivotal role in allowing middle class families to afford overseas travel. Author and illustrator Chris Gall, himself a licensed pilot, shows how an innovative design, hard work by countless people, and ground-breaking engineering put the Jumbo jet in the air. On January 22, 1970, the Boeing 747 made it's first transatlantic flight, taking passengers from New York to Paris in seven hours.
Download or read book QF32 written by Richard de Crespigny and published by Macmillan Publishers Aus.. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: QF32 is the award winning bestseller from Richard de Crespigny, author of the forthcoming Fly!: Life Lessons from the Cockpit of QF32 On 4 November 2010, a flight from Singapore to Sydney came within a knife edge of being one of the world's worst air disasters. Shortly after leaving Changi Airport, an explosion shattered Engine 2 of Qantas flight QF32 - an Airbus A380, the largest and most advanced passenger plane ever built. Hundreds of pieces of shrapnel ripped through the wing and fuselage, creating chaos as vital flight systems and back-ups were destroyed or degraded. In other hands, the plane might have been lost with all 469 people on board, but a supremely experienced flight crew, led by Captain Richard de Crespigny, managed to land the crippled aircraft and safely disembark the passengers after hours of nerve-racking effort. Tracing Richard's life and career up until that fateful flight, QF32 shows exactly what goes into the making of a top-level airline pilot, and the extraordinary skills and training needed to keep us safe in the air. Fascinating in its detail and vividly compelling in its narrative, QF32 is the riveting, blow-by-blow story of just what happens when things go badly wrong in the air, told by the captain himself. Winner of ABIA Awards for Best General Non-fiction Book of the Year 2013 and Indie Awards' Best Non-fiction 2012 Shortlisted ABIA Awards' Book of the Year 2013
Download or read book Chloe the Jumbo Jet written by Ciandress Jackson and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2012-10-21 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this introductory edition to the Chloe the Jumbo Jet Book Series, Chloe and pals go on their first mission as new jumbo jets at Wheels Up International Airport. Travel across the pond with Chloe and friends to see how they won Olympic Gold Medals!
Download or read book Jumbo Jets written by Lou Jacobs and published by Bobbs-Merrill Company. This book was released on 1976 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief history of jet airplanes leads to a discussion of the need for new jumbo jets, their design and construction, and their advantages and disadvantages for communities, airports, and passengers.
Download or read book Jumbo written by Chris Gall and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the 50th anniversary of the Boeing 747’s first commercial flight, a picture book about the development of the iconic passenger plane and how it changed the history of air travel. In 1968, the biggest passenger jet the world had ever seen premiered in Everett, Washington. The giant plane was called the Boeing 747, but reporters named it “the Jumbo jet.” There was only one problem. It couldn’t fly. Yet. Jumbo details the story of the world’s first wide body passenger jet, which could hold more people than any other plane at the time and played a pivotal role in allowing middle class families to afford overseas travel. Author and illustrator Chris Gall, himself a licensed pilot, shows how an innovative design, hard work by countless people, and ground-breaking engineering put the Jumbo jet in the air. On January 22, 1970, the Boeing 747 made it's first transatlantic flight, taking passengers from New York to Paris in seven hours.
Download or read book Why Don t Jumbo Jets Flap Their Wings written by David E. Alexander and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do a bumble bee and a 747 jet have in common? It's not a trick question. The fact is they have quite a lot in common. They both have wings. They both fly. And they're both ideally suited to it. They just do it differently. Why Don't Jumbo Jets Flap Their Wings? offers a fascinating explanation of how nature and human engineers each arrived at powered flight. What emerges is a highly readable account of two very different approaches to solving the same fundamental problems of moving through the air, including lift, thrust, turning, and landing. The book traces the slow and deliberate evolutionary process of animal flight--in birds, bats, and insects--over millions of years and compares it to the directed efforts of human beings to create the aircraft over the course of a single century. Among the many questions the book answers: Why are wings necessary for flight? How do different wings fly differently? When did flight evolve in animals? What vision, knowledge, and technology was needed before humans could learn to fly? Why are animals and aircrafts perfectly suited to the kind of flying they do? David E. Alexander first describes the basic properties of wings before launching into the diverse challenges of flight and the concepts of flight aerodynamics and control to present an integrated view that shows both why birds have historically had little influence on aeronautical engineering and exciting new areas of technology where engineers are successfully borrowing ideas from animals.
Download or read book Jumbo Jets written by Kenny Allen and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces jumbo jets and decribes the different parts to the jet that allows it to fly.
Download or read book The Biggest Ever Book of Paper Planes written by Nick Robinson and published by Ivy Press (TX). This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's the BIGGEST book of paper air planes ever made, the greatest origami air show on earth, the supersized collection of models for your paper hangar. Paper planes hold a stratospheric appeal for every generation and for all ages from a child enjoying the wonder of folding his or her first model to a grandparent streamlining the latest record-breaking creation. And there's no shortage of books on paper planes out there, but they're all so, well... small! THE BIGGEST EVER BOOK OF PAPER PLANES changes all that. It's the jumbo of the paper plane world, with giant templates for instant monster models. Designed to supersize your paper plane passion, it contains everything you need to create the Vulcans and Stealth bombers of the paper plane world. There is a manual of full folding instructions, with step-bystep illustrations, folding and flying tips, performance stats and charts, plus a dozen dazzlingly designed templates, not to mention the giant poster photographs. So, start folding, look to the skies, and beware of disrupting local air traffic. If you think the book looks impressive, wait till you see the planes! To enormity, and beyond!
Download or read book Airbus A380 written by Guy Norris and published by Zenith Imprint. This book was released on 2005 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing, behind-the-scenes look at the development of the biggest commercial aircraft ever built. With 200 colour photos, this book takes readers through the drama of the A380 project, introducing all the key players and unravelling the controversies surrounding its development.
Download or read book Big Wings written by Philip Kaplan and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2005-09-30 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the history of aviation there have been many attempts to produce aircraft of extraordinary proportions to expand the limits of technology and create new performance standards. With few exceptions, the early attempts did not become the successes envisaged until post-World War II when such aircraft as the Boeing B-52 long-range heavy bomber and the Boeing 747 'Jumbo Jet' airliner changed the face of aviation in both the military and civil roles. Big Wings is a well-researched, highly informative and sometimes nostalgic look at the sixteen most significant giants of the air. Each chosen aircraft is introduced and its raison d'?tre explained, then follows an in-depth review of the successful and failed technical aspects of the design, its operational history, first-hand accounts from those that had flown the aircraft and finally some startling facts and statistics. The aircraft selected are as follows: Military - Douglas B-19, Boeing B-29, Consolidated B-36, Northrop B-49 and Boeing B-52, Airliners - Bristol Brabazon, Boeing 747 and Airbus A380, Heavy Lifters - Messerschmitt Me323, Consolidated XC-99, Lockheed C5 and Antonov AN-225, Flying Boats - Dornier Do-X, Martin JRM Mars, Hughes HK-1 and Saunders Roe Princess.
Download or read book Boeing versus Airbus written by John Newhouse and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-01-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The commercial airline industry is one of the most volatile, dog-eat-dog enterprises in the world, and in the late 1990s, Europe’s Airbus overtook America’s Boeing as the preeminent aircraft manufacturer. However, Airbus quickly succumbed to the same complacency it once challenged, and Boeing regained its precarious place on top. Now, after years of heated battle and mismanagement, both companies face the challenge of serving burgeoning Asian markets and stiff competition from China and Japan. Combining insider knowledge with vivid prose and insight, John Newhouse delivers a riveting story of these two titans of the sky and their struggles to stay in the air.
Download or read book 747 written by Joe Sutter and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 747 is the thrilling story behind "the Queen of the Skies"—the Boeing 747—as told by Joe Sutter, one of the most celebrated engineers of the twentieth century, who spearheaded its design and construction. Sutter's vivid narrative takes us back to a time when American technology was cutting-edge and jet travel was still glamorous and new. With wit and warmth, he gives an insider's sense of the larger than life-size personalities—and the tensions—in the aeronautical world.
Download or read book Jumbo Jets written by Blaine Wiseman and published by Weigl Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and illustrations introduce the characteristics and functions of these machines that are used to move large objects all over the world.
