Make It Work Flight Author:Andrew Haslam The Make it Work Science series, recipient of the American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award, offers a new, hands-on approach to learning. Be a scientist and conduct your own experiments. Discover science facts through imaginative activities. Develop your scientific thinking by making science work. — How does a helicopter fly backward... more »? How does a falling sycamore seed spin? What keeps an airplane up in the air? This book explores flight from the boomerang to the space shuttle. It investigates different ways of resisting gravity, different sources of power, and how flying objects can be controlled.« less