Sky high!: a soaring history of aviation

Whirlybirds and spinning seeds : plants' airborne adventures

Animals in the air : flying and gliding creatures

Born to fly : the world of birds

Flying fantasies : famous fliers from myth and legend

Steam pigeons and borrowed wings : early attempts at flying

Lighter than air : the Montgolfier brothers' balloons

Silk birds and flying boxes : Lawrence Hargrave's box kites

Getting off the ground : the pioneers of aviation

A hop, a skip and a jump : the Lilienthal brothers and other glider pilots

Two trailblazers : the Wright brothers and the first plane

The art of piloting : how to control a plane, then and now

Monoplane, biplane, triplane : the planes of the First World War

Aerial tennis and wing walks : aerobatics and flying circuses

The Tin Goose : the Ford Trimotor and early passenger planes

Great Transatlantic expeditions : four top aviators and their kit (John Alcock & Arthur Brown, Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, Stanislaw Skarżyński)

Flying windmills : Juan de la Cierva's gyroplane

Clocks and dials : the De Havilland Tiger Moth and basic flight instruments

Water racers : The Supermarine S.6 and flying races

Sky giants : The LZ 129 Hindenburg and the golden age of airships

Ships with wings : the Boeing 314 Clipper and flying boats

Whirling blades : the origins of the helicopter

On your marks, jet set, go! : the first jet aircraft

Deadly planes : bombers of the Second World War

Speedier than sound : the Bell X-1

Tailsitters : the Snecma C.450 Coléoptère and other experimental aircraft

Rotor revolutions : alternative helicopter designs

Titanium blackbird : the Lockheed SR-71 and pressure suits

The mechanical hawk : the Hawker Siddeley Harrier and aircraft carriers

Plane and simple : general aviation and the Cessna 172

Do it yourself : homebuilt kit planes

A breath of hot air : modern hot air balloons

Flying jellyfish : hang gliders, parafoils and paragliders

A plane with a hump : the Boeing 747 jumbo jet

A truck with wings : the Boeing 747 cargo

Supersonic harmony : Concorde

Pedal power : the Gossamer Albatross and human-powered aircraft

Falling with style : gliders and thermal columns

Head-spinningly fast : the MIG-29 and air force pilot training

How do you design a plane? : the Rutan Voyager

Learning to fly : flight simulators and the Airbus A320 cockpit

Safety on board : why there's no need to be afraid of flying

Invisible aircraft : the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit and stealth technology

Plane or helicopter? : the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey

Choose your chopper : modern helicopters

The multitasker : the Lockheed C-130 Hercules

Water bombers and hurricane hunters : specialist planes

Further, faster, cheaper : the Boeing 787 Dreamliner

Busy bees : unmanned aerial vehicles, better known as drones

The sun-seeker : the Solar Impulse 2 and its around-the-world-tour.