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1) Hidden figures: the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race

Author

Lee Shetterly, Margot

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 18

Language

English

Appears on list

Women's History Month

Formats

Description

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"Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in...

2) This is your captain speaking: stories from the flight deck

Author

Publisher

ECW Press

Pub. Date

2022.

Language

English

Description

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"The secret side of airplane travel, straight from the captain's mouth Captain Doug Morris has been writing for his airline's inflight magazine for 23 years and answered a gamut of questions. This sequel to his bestselling book, From the Flight Deck: Plane Talk and Sky Science, explains everything you wanted to know about airline travel, such as: Do airliners have keys? What do aircrew get up to on layovers? Why the bumps? This Is Your Captain Speaking...

3) The Wright brothers

Author

McCullough, David G

Series

Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction

Pub. Date

[2015]

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audio, Large Print, New Audio, On the fly

Description

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"As he did so brilliantly in THE GREAT BRIDGE and THE PATH BETWEEN THE SEAS, David McCullough once again tells a dramatic story of people and technology, this time about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly, Wilbur and Orville Wright"--Provided by publisher.

4) Aviation: a Smithsonian guide

Author

Lopez, Donald S

Publisher

Macmillan USA

Pub. Date

c1995

Language

English

5) Milestones of aviation: Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum

Language

English

6) The airmen: a poem in four parts

Author

Publisher

Random House

Pub. Date

1941

Language

English

7) The Magic School Bus taking flight: a book about flight

Author

Series

Magic School Bus TV books

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

c1997

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

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This magic school bus adventure takes the class into the air, to explore the principles of flight and the early days of airplanes.

8) Fly now: a colorful story of flight from hot air balloon to the 777 "Worldliner" :the poster collection of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

Author

London, Joanne Gernstein

Publisher

National Geographic Society

Pub. Date

2009

Language

English

9) Wings over Vermont : early aviation in Vermont

Author

Laird, Robert E

Publisher

Academy Books

Pub. Date

♭1998

Language

English

10) ASTB study guide: test prep and practice questions for the ASTB-E

Publisher

Accepted, Inc

Pub. Date

2015.

Language

English

11) Light airplane navigation essentials

Author

Publisher

McGraw-Hill

Pub. Date

c1997

Language

English

12) Flight: 100 years of aviation

Author

Publisher

DK Pub

Pub. Date

2002

Language

English

13) Century of flight

Publisher

Time-Life Books

Pub. Date

c1999

Language

English

14) North to the Orient

Author

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Publisher

Harcourt, Brace and company

Pub. Date

[c1935]

Language

English

15) History of flight: from the flying machine of Leonardo Da Vinci to the conquest of the space

Author

Publisher

Distributed in the US by Rizzoli International Publications

Pub. Date

2006, c2002

Language

English

16) The concise history of aviation: with over 1,000 scaled profiles of aircraft from 1903 to the present

Author

Matricardi, Paolo

Publisher

Crescent Books

Pub. Date

1985

Language

English

17) No highway

Author

Publisher

Morrow

Pub. Date

c1948

Language

English

18) Early birds: an informal account of the beginnings of aviation

Author

Publisher

Dutton

Pub. Date

1981

Language

English

19) History of aviation

Author

Taylor, John William Ransom

Publisher

Crown Publishers, Inc

Pub. Date

1977

Language

English

20) The Smithsonian book of flight

Author

Boyne, Walter J

Publisher

Orion Books

Pub. Date

c1987

Language

English

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