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Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The twenty-first century has relegated airplane flight--a once remarkable feat of human ingenuity--to the realm of the mundane. When most people today think of flying, they imagine tedious routines that involve security checkpoints, exorbitant baggage fees, shrinking legroom, and frustrating delays. Mark Vanhoenacker, a 747 pilot who gave up careers in academia and the business world to pursue his childhood dream of flight, asks us to re-imagine...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A claustrophobic thriller set over twenty hours on one airplane flight, with the heart-stopping tension of The Last Flight and the wrenching emotional intensity of Room, Hostage takes us on board the inaugural nonstop flight from London to Sydney. Mina is trying to focus on her job as a flight attendant, not the problems of her five-year-old daughter back home, or the fissures in her marriage. But the plane has barely taken off when Mina receives...
7) Aircraft
Author
Series
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Instructions and illustrations demonstrate how to draw eleven different airplanes and one helicopter.
8) Stunt planes
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone High-Interest Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Describes the sport of stunt flying, including its history, the most popular stunt planes, basic stunts, and stunt flying contests.
9) Falling
Author
Language
English
Description
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Terrifying...buckle up for a chilling summer read." —People (Best Books of the Week)
"The perfect thriller! A must-read." —Gillian Flynn
"Stunning and relentless. This is Jaws at 35,000 feet." —Don Winslow
You just boarded a flight to New York.
There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard.
...
"Terrifying...buckle up for a chilling summer read." —People (Best Books of the Week)
"The perfect thriller! A must-read." —Gillian Flynn
"Stunning and relentless. This is Jaws at 35,000 feet." —Don Winslow
You just boarded a flight to New York.
There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard.
...
11) Fly high, Katie!
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Katie is flying to Florida to visit her grandmother, but she has never been on an airplane before.
12) On this airplane
Author
Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"On this airplane...Someone travels solo, two travel as one, three return and four set out. In this simple and moving book, a young family takes a plane to their new home. While onboard, they encounter all the people you meet on a plane: a bookworm, a businessperson, tourists, crying babies and daydreamers...all with their own stories, all heading somewhere special." -- Inside front cover.
13) Plane
Publisher
Di Bonaventura Pictures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In the white-knuckle action movie PLANE, pilot Brodie Torrance saves his passengers from a lightning strike by making a risky landing on a war-torn island only to find that surviving the landing was just the beginning. When most of the passengers are taken hostage by dangerous rebels, the only person Torrance can count on for help is Louis Gaspare, an accused murderer who was being transported by the FBI. To rescue the passengers, Torrance will need...
16) The wind rises
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the world's most innovative and accomplished airplane designers. Jiro meets and falls in love with Nahoko, and grows and cherishes his friendship with his colleague Honjo. The film chronicles much of his...
17) Go, go, planes!
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A brother and sister discover all kinds of planes, from jumbo jets to toy planes, to small planes flying overhead!"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Super Wings is the hit preschool series now airing on Universal Kids and Netflix! A young girl named Tess is excited go to the Airport in her home town of Amsterdam, where she will be going on her first airplane ride. Jett brings her a carry-on suitcase, but trouble arises when it goes missing! Based on the hit preschool series on Universal Kids and now on Netflix, this My First I Can Read is carefully crafted using basic language, word repetition,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Super Wings is?the hit?preschool series now airing on Universal Kids! Jett delivers a surfboard to a girl named Clara who lives on the Gold Coast, Australia. Mira's Wild Team is called in to teach Clara to surf, but everyone winds up getting more than they bargained for when they also wind up helping to rescue a shark!
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