Let’s Build Airplanes and Rockets!

Description

Let’s Build Airplanes and Rockets!

Let’s Build Airplanes and Rockets! (English) by Dr. Ben P. Millspaugh

Description

Let’s Build Airplanes and Rockets!

Each chapter is devoted to learning about and building a working model of one aircraft from each period in the evolution of aviation. Across-the-curriculum activities are also included. Improving creativity and attachment towards Aviation/Aircraft. Emphasizing on basics of creation of airplanes and explaining the development process through time this book is good knowledgeable stuff.

Provides straightforward directions for children to build history-making aircraft and spacecraft, using inexpensive, safe materials. Projects include constructing a kite, a working model of a hot air balloon, a hand glider, and rockets. These aim to let children make their own aerospace history.

Contents

Let’s build the Montgolfier balloon; let’s build Cayley’s glider; let’s build Lilienthal’s glider; let’s build the Wright flyer; let’s build th espirit of St Louis; let’s build Sikorsky’s helicopter; let’s build the X-1; let’s build the X-15; let’s build the Voyager; let’s build the Saturn; let’s build the shuttle; sources and resources for everything that flies.