Brian Clegg

Inflight Science: A Guide to the World From Your Airplane Window (2011)

This book goes for breadth rather than depth, providing a GCSE-level answer to almost every annoying question your children might ask you on a flight, from 'why is the sky blue?', to 'what is that funny smoke coming out of the engine?'. The science-nerd in me enjoyed it tremendously, though I fel...