This title explores the history of The National Championship Air Races. Readers will meet important people in Reno Air Races history such as Bill Stead. Readers will learn the seven classes of planes and the rules for each course, from qualifying heats to flying through the course pylons. Famous pilots and planes such as Rod Lewis and the Champion Seafury #232, Chuck Greenhill and the Super Seafury "Furias", and Jimmy Leeward and the Galloping Ghost are covered.
Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
A&D Xtreme is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO. Reviewed Xtreme Races features the skills, challenges, and life-threatening dangers faced in six of the world's greatest competitions. From Alaska's wilderness to France's grueling mountains, detailed, full-color photographs bring readers along on the thundering thrill rides faced on land, air, sea, and snow. Reluctant readers will be drawn in by the short, easy-to read bursts of information that explain each race's history and rules, as well as the top men and women who use their talents to win a place in history.
Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
A&D Xtreme is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
