Books with title Fighter Pilot.

A sleek jet shoots through the sky, looking for enemy planes. The pilot in the cockpit has been through countless flight hours and training to reach this point. This high-interest title examines a career as a fighter pilot, from education and training to required gear and skills. A career path sidebar charts a pilots journey, while a daily checklist moves the reader through a typical day. Young readers can find out if they have what it takes to soar in this exciting read. Whats your dream job? Certain careers capture the hearts and imaginations of people from a young age. But what do astronauts and race car drivers really do? This high-interest series digs into the daily life of these careers, from tasks and goals to experience and training. Sidebars profile famous people in each career, and outline career paths and day-to-day tasks. Find out if your dream career is really as cool as it seems!

Big Jobs! is a new narrative non-fiction series covering popular historical topics through a variety of colourful jobs in a down-to-earth, readable style, with plenty of toilet humour! Each chapter features a double page fact spread and there is a glossary at the end. In Fighter Pilot Britain is at war with Germany and your dream is to become a heroic fighter pilot. Experience what life in the skies is like as you make new friends on the nearby airbase and learn from them what it takes to train to be a pilot. You get to go up in a plane and even meet a real-life prisoner! You'll find it's a big job being a fighter pilot.

After a horrific crash of The U. S. Navy's flight demonstration team, The Blue Angels, at an air show before 250,000 live spectators and millions on television and the internet, the Navy reassigns seven elite fighter pilots, and in a historic moment among them the first woman to fly in the high speed formation flights, to reform the unit, flying fighter jets at over 500 mph, in formations a Coke can's width apart, with ice in their veins, while navigating the fiery turbulences of their personal lives.NOTE:While the milieu for this story is the military with jets that streak fast and loud, these two volumes are first and foremost a story about the people who fly them, their lives, their loves, their ups and downs…Life. Enjoy your vicarious ride with them.The Blue Angels established in 1946 are an American cultural icon born of the jet age and equally well known abroad, annually over 10 million people watch them perform their aerial ballet at blinding speeds before air shows throughout the U. S. and two international locations.

Jair hated being short. Back in middle school, he d figured he hadn't hit his growth spurt. But now he was a junior at Cap Central. To compensate, he d made sure everyone knew how tough he was. And every so often, he d add to his reputation by punching someone. It had been a while since he had to school someone. But he knew that the new kid would get what was coming to him...Reading level: 3.5. Interest Level: Young Adult.