Summary: A small passenger plane makes a forced landing in the Sahara. The challenge: survival. The tiny band from the plane fights off thirst, Arabs, treachery, declining morale and despair. Incredibly, the plane, like the legendary phoenix that rises from its own ashes, flies again.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2003

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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FLI

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Flight 2003

Summary: Electric cars seem increasingly likely to replace gas-guzzling vehicles. Could a new generation of emission-free electric planes do the same to the polluting airliners in the skies - a major step in the fight against climate change?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GRE

Summary: Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the world's most innovative and accomplished airplane designers. Jiro meets and falls in love with Nahoko, and grows and cherishes his friendship...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2014

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2 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME WIN

Summary: Building an airplane: A jet airplane is one of the fastest machines on the planet. But have you ever seen one being made? It all goes together like a jigsaw puzzle! Once it's assembled, a test pilot takes the jet out for a flight. Will it pass the test? Soon the jet is ready to get to work flying people all over the world; Ride the mountain rails!: Work train is busy keeping the tracks in good...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by NCircle Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MIG

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MIG

Lacey, Saskia

Summary: Details how a plane works, how it is constructed, and labels the different parts of a plane.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Walter Foster Jr., an imprint of Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc. 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629 LAC

Gall, Chris

Summary: "Jumbo details the story of the world's first wide body passenger jet, which could hold more people than any other plane at the time and played a pivotal role in allowing middle class families to afford overseas travel. Author and illustrator Chris Gall,himself a licensed pilot, shows how an innovative design, hard work by countless people, and ground-breaking engineering put the jumbo jet in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.133 GAL

Brooks, Malcolm

Summary: "In 1937 Montana, fourteen-year-old Houston "Huck" Finn finds a dead body in a local creek and steals the man's rare Lindbergh flight watch. Huck is an aspiring aviator, working to build his own airplane--a secret he has kept from his God-fearing mother.His cousin, Annelise, arrives from Los Angeles for a long stay with his family, and Huck is initially wary until he learns she has had flight...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRO

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BRO

Spenser, Jay P.

Summary: The inside story of how people invented and refined the airplane.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.133 SPE

Provensen, Alice.

Summary: A biography of the man whose fascination with flying machines produced the Bleriot XI, which in 1909 became the first heavier-than-air machine to fly the English Channel.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 1987

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BLE

Heppenheimer, T. A.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.13 HEP

Provensen, Alice.

Summary: A biography of the man whose fascination with flying machines produced the Bleriot XI, which crossed the English Channel in thirty-seven minutes in the early 1900's.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Press 1983

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 629.13 PRO

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BLE

Summary: Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the worlds most innovative and accomplished airplane designers. Jiro meets and falls in love with Nahoko, and grows and cherishes his friendship...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2013

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WIN RATED PG-13

Weiss, Alex.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nexus Special Interests 1998

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.1331 WEI

Ashey, Mike.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kalmbach Pub. Co. 1994

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.1331 ASH