Inflight Science: A Guide to Your World Through Your Airplane Window (PAPERBACK)

Brian Clegg

UK £8.99,Canada $18.00,
UK Publication January 2012
ISBN 9781848313057
Paperback
Page Extent 224

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‘Fitting into that publishing niche somewhere between hard science and Schott’s Miscellany that was so successfully exploited by books such as The Cloudspotter’s Guide’ The Times

‘Catches the current wave of Brian Cox-approved popular science … for those who are interested in the way things work, and have seen the films on offer on board, it’s a pleasant way of riding out the bumps.’ Rebecca Nicholson, Sunday Times

There are few times when science is so immediate as when you’re in a plane.
Acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg shows how you stay up there – but that’s only the beginning.  Inflight Science explains the ever-changing view, whether its crop circles or clouds, mountains or river deltas, and describes 
easy-to-do experiments to show how a wing provides lift or how to calculate the population of the 
towns you fly over. Packed full of amazing insights from physics, chemistry, engineering, geography and
more Inflight Science is a voyage of scientific discovery perfect for any journey – even if it’s just in your armchair.

 

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'With this book in hand, we have all we need to set off on our next flight with our eyes open to the sheer wonder of what is involved’ Alain de Botton, Mail on Sunday

‘Everything you were afraid (very afraid) to ask is explained in this brilliant guide to the science of getting into the air, staying there and landing.’ Saga

 

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Brian Clegg is a science writer. He runs popularscience.co.uk and is latest books are The Universe Inside You, Inflight Science and Introducing Infinity: A Graphic Guide. Follow him on Twitter @brianclegg.

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Other editions / related titles:

Inflight Science: A Guide to the World from Your Airplane Window (EBOOK:PDF)
Inflight Science: A Guide to the World from Your Airplane Window (EPUB)
Inflight Science: A Guide to the World from Your Airplane Window (PAPERBACK)

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