Cleared for Takeoff: The Ultimate Book of Flight - Rowland White
Flight has always fascinated mankind; we’ve looked at birds with envy for millennia, but it wasn’t until recently that we managed to turn our desire to fly into reality. Two new books help explain how we got there in captivating histories of humanity’s quest for flight. After reading Rowland White’s “ultimate book of flight,” the simple phrase Cleared for Takeoff (Chronicle, $21.99) will always contain a little bit of magic.