How Does It Fly?: The Science of Flight

by Peter Rees

A guide to airplane flight discusses checking luggage, the air-traffic control tower, what the pilot does, taking off, how airplanes stay up, navigation, safety, and narrowly averted disasters.

36 pages, Library Binding

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Peter Rees was a journalist for more than forty years, working as federal political correspondent for the Melbourne Sun, the West Australian and the Sunday Telegraph. He is the author of The Boy from Boree Creek: The Tim Fischer Story (2001), Tim Fischer's Outback Heroes (2002), Killing Juanita: a true story of murder and corruption (2004), and The Other Anzacs: The Extraordinary story of our World War I Nurses (2008 and 2009) and Desert Boy: Australians at War from Beersheba to Tobruk to El Alamein (2011 and 2012). He is currently working on a biography of Charles Bean to be published in 2015.

Reviews

[Leigh · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dense with material but fun for kids.

[Suzy-Q · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very good overview of flying, what to expect on a flight and at an airport, and lots of trivia. Only one section really describes how a plane gets off the ground. There are lots of pictures and it's easy to read. You will definitely go, "hey, I didn't know this before!" and will be surprised at what you will learn about aircraft.