Cañon City Public Library

Text and illustrations teach young children about different types of airplanes and their parts.

Simple text describes what airplanes look like and what they do.

"Angela loses her father at the airport and looks everywhere to find him--beside the airplanes, under the airplanes, and finally inside an airplane. Sitting in the cockpit, she pushes one button, then another till--oh no! The plane takes off"--

An airplane takes off, flies, and lands after having passed over cities, country areas, lakes, and more.

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.

A family checks luggage and goes through security while workers ready the airplane that is going to fly them away for some fun in the sun.

Bell has never encountered a case- and an enemy- quite like the one before him now, though. It is 1910, the age of flying machines is still in its infancy, and newspaper publisher Preston Whiteway is offering $50,000 for the first daring aviator to cross America in less than fifty days. He is even sponsoring one of the prime candidates- an intrepid aviatrix named Josephine Frost- and that's where Bell, chief investigator for the Van Dorn Detective...