How People Learned to Fly

How People Learned to Fly
ISBN-10
0060295589
ISBN-13
9780060295585
Category
Juvenile Nonfiction
Pages
40
Language
English
Published
2007-10-16
Publisher
Harper Collins
Author
Fran Hodgkins

Description

People have taken dangerous risks trying to fly. Some inventors built wings for their arms and flapped them like birds. Some built balloons. Some built machines that glided with the wind. It wasn't easy, though, and it took a long time and much experimentation until people invented the airplane. Read and find out how people learned to fly.

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