Readers learn about early airplanes, famous firsts in aviation history, passenger jets, and special planes such as crop dusters, seaplanes, cargo planes, military aircraft, and even helicopters.

Traveling to the wedding of his estranged daughter and left stranded in O'Hare Airport when his flight is cancelled, Bennie Ford begins writing a letter of complaint to the airline that evolves into a painful lament for a life that has gone badly awry.

Describes what airplane trips are, why people take them, how people get ready for them, and what happens on them.

"In the early years of the twentieth-century, the use of airships known as dirigibles - some as large as one thousand feet long - was being promulgated in Southern California by a semi-clandestine lighter-than-air movement. Groups like the East LA Balloon Club and the Bessie Coleman Aero Club were hard at work to revolutionize travel in the pre-apocalyptic Southwest, with an aim to literally lift oppressed people out of racism and poverty. ELADATL...

Flying to a secret job interview in Texas in the wake of an unsatisfying relationship and career, Kevin Quinn falls for a fellow passenger and obsessively worries about terrorist threats in Europe while spending an ensuing eight hours hoping for personal reinvention.

Combining the best of galley gossip with the author's own experiences, this insider's look at the life of a flight attendant takes readers behind the scenes.

While traveling with her family to Holland to visit her grandparents, Trixie once again loses her beloved Knuffle Bunny.

"A woman strikes up a conversation with the man sitting next to her on a plane after some turbulence. He returns home to tragic news that has also impacted another stranger, a shaken pilot on his way to another continent who seeks comfort from a journalist he meets that night. Her life shifts subtly as well, before she heads to the airport on an assignment that will shift more lives in turn. In this wondrous, profoundly moving novel, Szalay's diverse...