Illustrations and easy-to-read rhyming text celebrate different kinds of planes, their instruments, what they carry, and what it is like to go for a flight.

"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.

After a CIA covert mission goes badly awry, U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Nicholas Flynn is exiled to guard a remote radar post along Alaska's Arctic frontier. This dead-end assignment is designed to put his career permanently on ice, but Flynn's not the type to fade quietly into obscurity... As winter storms pound Alaska and northern Canada, Russian aircraft begin penetrating deep into friendly airspace. Are these rehearsals for a possible...

In 1934 by Federal statute, The National Archives of the United States were created to be the nation's record keeper. Its mission is unique--to serve American democracy by preserving and making available to the people the permanently valuable records of the U.S. Government. These include famous documents, and billions of pages of textual materials, more than 20 million still pictures and 365,000 reels of motion picture film and 110,000 video recordings,...