This book explains the mysteries of stealth technology and describes thrilling adventues with the secretive E-117A fighter, the high-tech B-2 bomber, and the supersonic F-22 fighter.

Describes the ideas and experiments that lead to the first powered flight by the 1903 "Wright Flyer."

Describes some of the many planes being designed today as designers and engineers experiment with new ideas, materials, fuels, and control systems to develop planes that will fly faster, further, higher, and more efficiently.