Discover the flight techniques of insects, birds and flying creatures, and human inventions from kites to airliners; step-by-step experiments help you understand how flight works.

Includes glossary and index.

What is flight? -- Wings and lift -- Curve and lift -- Air resistance -- Shaped by design -- Gliding and soaring -- Kites and sails -- Let's go fly a kite -- Lighter than air -- Hot air rising -- What's in a wing? -- Taking flight -- Model planes -- Propellers -- Propel yourself -- Jet engines -- Zoom through the air -- Faster than sound -- Going up -- Strange aircraft -- Speeding through water -- Flying through space -- Birds in flight -- How birds fly -- Insect wings -- Amazing flying animals -- Prehistoric flyers -- The history of flight -- Fly into the future.