Text and photographs depict the basic procedures involved in flying the world's largest passenger plane, the Boeing 747-400

"Introduces the reader to the science of flight."--

A skilled mechanic in 1930s Germany is offered a job on the most magnificent airship ever built, the Hindenberg. But dangers from flammable gas, storms and lightning are there. Follows the airship as it bursts into flame and investigates the cause of the disaster

Describes what it was like to be an astronaut on the "unlucky" 1970 Apollo 13 mission to the moon