Inflight Science : A Guide to the World from Your Airplane Window (Paperback)

from keristars

Inflight Science is an enjoyable look at geology, applied physics, astronomy, and meteorology as relates to or experienced from an airplane. While none (or at least very little) of the information in the book was new to me — thanks to my high school AP chemistry and AP physics courses and a...

from cvanhasselt

Breezy and light, this book takes readers from the departure gate to touching down in an airplane, examining the science that abounds aloft. Everything from angular momentum to x-rays is covered, in short, easy to read sections. None of the science is particularly in-depth or technical, a disappo...

from gothamajp

As someone who has spent most of his career in the aerospace industry, and currently flies over 50,000 miles a year, I spend a lot of time looking out of airplane windows. This seemed like the perfect book for a plane flight - so that's where I read it. Maybe I was expecting too much, but overall...

from gtvalentine

Using the framework of an airplane flight, from waiting at the airport terminal to takeoff and cruising to the return to terra firma, Brian Clegg's "Inflight Science" teaches a broad array of flight related engineering and science. He covers the electromagnetic spectrum, airport security systems,...

from lisalangford

INFLIGHT SCIENCE by Brian Clegg is chock full of facts. Using flight as a launching pad (okay, yes, pun intended), Clegg relays scientific facts about altitude, astronomy, quantum physics, the earth, color...and much much more. Not only does Clegg describe the science behind much of those things ...