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How to Build a Sky is Carl Wang's plain-language introduction to flight and aerospace engineering, written for readers with no math or science background. It explains lift, weight, thrust and drag, jet engines, rockets, the ISS orbit and Mars habitats through everyday experiments like a spoon under a faucet or a hand out a car window. It suits curious teens and adults, students and aviation fans who want concepts rather than equations. Its closest rivals are illustrated explainers like The Way Things Work and Randall Munroe's What If?, and it trades their breadth or humor for a single focused path from paper planes to rockets.
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How to Build a Sky is a beginner's guide to aerospace engineering for people who dislike textbooks. It uses no equations and no jargon, and it assumes no prior knowledge.
Author Carl Wang explains the science of flight with everyday objects: a spoon and a faucet, a hand held out a car window, and a paper plane that stalls. Complex ideas are broken down into simple stories, from the Wright brothers' first flight to landing rockets on drone ships.
The book covers the four forces that control all flight: lift, weight, thrust, and drag. It explains why airplane wings are curved and describes a kitchen experiment that shows it. It also covers how jet engines breathe air while rockets carry their own oxygen, and why the International Space Station is always falling but never hits Earth. Other topics include how pilots land safely when they cannot see the runway, and the engineering challenges of hypersonic aircraft and Mars habitats.
