Profiles nearly five hundred civil and military jets, helicopters, and other aircraft, providing color photos, multi-angle drawings, brief histories, specifications, and dimensions and listing their features and variants.

Discusses the design and equipment of the specialized Sikorsky helicopter known as the Pave Low and its use by the Air Force in military missions.

"A teacher is stuck on a Ferris wheel! Who can save her? WHUP WHUP WHUP...it's Yellow Copter!"--

Take flight in a news helicopter; fly in the Super Stallion, Apache, and Cobra helicopters; and see how police officers, firemen, and the coast guard use helicopters to protect and rescue people. Then pull and push huge ships with a tugboat; carry oil and gas in a supertanker; use a claw-like crane to load containers onto a container ship; board a ship that drives on land; go underwater in a submarine; board a Coast Guard cutter, Navy cruiser, hovercraft,...

Provides an introduction to the size, speed, and purpose of the world's largest helicopter, including a brief history and what the future holds for the Mil Mi-26.

"Fly along with Elecopter as she soars above the savannah, patrolling the skies with her fire-hose nose at the ready. The other animals are safe with Elecopter on the scene--Elecopter is a hero for all"--