Stationery Flight: Extraordinary Paper Airplanes

Indoors or out, youÂ’ll soar into the skies with this amazing collection of new and advanced designs for fun paper planes that defy everyday concepts of what aircraft should look like. A description of each planeÂ’s aerodynamic properties accompanies the fully illustrated, easy-to-follow folding instructions.

The Way Things Work - Flight

In Flight, inhabitants of Mammoth Island attempt to use a trusty mammoth to deliver canvas awnings when a gust of wind creates quite a stir! The islanders discover that the power of the wind, combined with the unique shape of the awning, is able to overcome the considerable weight of the mammoth, lifting it up into the sky like a kite. As soon as the wind dies down, however, the mammoth returns to Earth with a crash. The islanders begin experimenting and eventually come up with the right combination of the four forces involved in flight: gravity, lift, thrust and drag. Balancing these forces allows them to harness the power of the air and take to the skies!

Grades:  3 to 6

Joe Carpenter’s wife and two children perished with more than three hundred others in the crash of United Airlines Flight 353. But one year later, haunted by the loss of his family and desperate to find purpose in life, he discovers that the official story of Flight 353 is a treacherous lie.
They say it was an accident. It was not. They say there were no survivors: that the crash was too devastating for anyone to live through it. But incredibly, Joe discovers one woman walked away from the disaster, with a secret...