This book describes a jet, a type of airplane that has powerful engines, explaining how they have long, thin bodies and pointed front tips, how lift, gravity, thrust, and drag, act on jets, and how there are passenger jets and fighter jets.
General Note
Includes index.
Includes glossary.
Content Note
Get moving - What is a jet? - A closer look - Why jets fly - How jets move - A special engine - The pilot's seat - On a jet plane - Military uses - Past to present - Blast from the past.