Billy's favorite Book today is Flight: A Pop-Up Book of Aircraft by Robert Crowther. It is a fantastic pop-up book that discusses the history of flight, from the first man-made object to fly (a Chinese kite) to NASA's X-43A Scramjet. Our son's favorite page? A pop-up of the cockpit of a Boeing 747, complete with two control columns and a throttle!
Billy's favorite plane in the book is the Bell X-1. In 1947, Chuck yeager became the first person to travel faster than the speed of sound. While he was piloting the Bell X-1, Yeager reached a record breaking 700 miles per hour. Billy said, "Did you see how fast that goes! I want to go as fast as that goes!"
Billy also enjoyed reading about the R-4 helicopter. The Russian born engineer, Igor Sikorsky, built and flew this first practical helicopter in 1939. A year later, the U.S. Army hired him to build the first military helicopter, the R-4.
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