Fighter Planes: Masters of the Sky

Fighter Planes: Masters of the Sky
ISBN-10
0766070611
ISBN-13
9780766070615
Series
Fighter Planes
Category
Juvenile Nonfiction
Pages
48
Language
English
Published
2015-07-15
Publisher
Enslow Publishing, LLC
Authors
Karen E. Bledsoe, Glen Bledsoe, Taylor Baldwin Kiland

Description

Fighter planes were made famous by the movie Top Gun, but they were first used during World War I and have become a standard symbol for the military. Through first-hand interviews, learn about the development and evolution of fighter planes, when and how they are used, and what itÂ’s like to be the pilots who fly them and the engineers who fix them.

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