THE SCIENCE BEHIND DC SUPER HEROES SUPERMANS FLIGHT by Tammy Enz Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster by special arrangement with the Jerry Siegel family SCIENCE BEHIND SUPERMAN CAPSTONE PRESS a capstone imprint
INTRODUCTION SOARING LIKE SUPERMAN Superman has no wings No engine No special gear But with a single leap he can defy gravity and fly into the air Humans don't have Superman's powers But the science of flight lets people soar through the air in amazing ways FACT Superman first appeared in comics in 1938 But at first he only leaped over tall buildings He didn't begin flying until the early 1940s gravity a force that pulls objects together gravity pulls objects down toward the center of Earth
