Cleared for Takeoff

All of aviation's dangerous, exciting, and most courageous moments are featured within this stunning compendium on flight. Packed with stories of heroic and innovative pioneers, fascinating profiles of remarkable planes from Spitfires to space shuttles, and how-to instructions for making everything from origami helicopters to bottle rocketsall accompanied by sensational photographs, illustrations, and diagramsCleared for Takeoff promises to astonish, entertain, and fire the imaginations of everyone with their head in the clouds.