This great large-format title showcases the military's best aircraft - those capable of acrobatic feats, deploying missiles and speeds of Mach 3! Detailed gatefold photographs transport young readers right into the cockpit (including the ejection seat), and allow them to examine the engines, stabilisers, landing gear, wings, joystick, little black box, and more. Dozens of 'plane facts' discuss the science behind such things as the sonic boom, as well as piloting technique.

 

This book is part of a book series called Up Close .

There are 28 pages in this book. This book was published 2008 by Sterling Juvenile .

Andra Serlin Abramson is the author of Fighter Planes UP CLOSE (9781402747960) and Submarines UP CLOSE (9781402747977), among others. Mordecai-Mark Mac Low is a curator at the American Museum of Natural History in the department of Astrophysics.