"To many people, the thought of pilotless vehicles whizzing overhead delivering everything from clothes to groceries to skateboards seems like something out of a science fiction novel. But some of the world's biggest e-commerce companies are in a fierce race for early control of the drone delivery market, especially in the United States. They are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to design and develop drone delivery systems that are cost-effective,...

Shares the experiences of the citizens of Gander, Newfoundland, who were hosts to the more than six thousand passengers of thirty-eight U.S.-bound jetliners forced to land there in the wake of the September 11th attacks.

Brothers Brian and Joe Hackett attempt to run a Nantucket-based airline, Sandpiper Air, while surrounded by their wacky friends and co-workers at Tom Nevers Field.

"Get ready to take off in an airplane! Ground crew, flight attendants, pilots, and tower control are all here to help you journey across the sky. For first-time flyers eager to earn their wings or experienced flyers curious about who controls the plane, Fly shows readers the entire process that helps a plane climb high into the air and then land safely at its destination."--Page [2] of cover.

"Of all people who might have solved the problem of human flight, few would have suspected Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, a fusty, old-school member of the Wurrtemburg nobility, recently ousted from the German military and convinced that a flying machine will be his ticket back to military glory. Instead, by the dawn of the twentieth century, he creates something much bigger: a system of flight that embodies the cutting edge of multiple sciences and...

"A nonfiction account of a group of determined Black Americans who created a flying club and built their own airfield on Chicago's South Side in the period between World Wars I and II"--