Look Inside Cross-Sections Series: Record Breakers NOS

Look Inside Cross-Sections Series: Record Breakers (1995)

The Look Inside Cross-Sections series provide detail of complex machines, giving children X-ray vision. Each book contains artworks that cut across, up, down, and through objects, allowing every hidden part to be examined. This book looks inside a dragster and other speed machines.

The informative text is coupled with meticulously detailed, full-colour cross-sectional illustrations to provide answers to the many questions children ask about the way things operate:

- What is a burnout?
- What plane was built to catch flying bombs?
- What speed record has stood for more than 50 years?
- Why does a drag bike have stabilizer wheels?
- Why did tea clipper ships race each other?
- Why do Indy cars have wings?
- Which speed machine sprays surf everywhere?
- Which car was driven by a jet engine?
- Which boat has a jet fighter canopy?