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Week 33: Aviation: Navigation, Instruments, Avionics & Flight Lesson #1
We'll take you from zero to soaring through the clouds with a certified flight instructor. Discover the different flight instruments that pilots use to fly the airplane and make sure they reach their destination. You'll also get to meet airline captains, military pilots, and more with this hands-on set of flying sessions designed to get you inspired to take flight!
If you have a kid that just can't seem to get enough aviation information, there are two options for further resources: First, get the Flight Training magazine, and second, find a copy of the Jeppesen Guided Flight Discovery Private Pilot Manual. (It doesn't have to be the current edition unless they are in ground school, so feel free to get an older, used edition.) Both are required for aviation ground school, and there's really nothing like giving your kid the right tools for learning.
Special Interview with American Airlines Chief Pilot Captain Dave
We're going to have a special guest presentation with American Airline Pilot Dave, who was one of the youngest pilots American has ever hired. Dave is a jet pilot, commercial pilot, and has over 30 years of flying experience and is going to share his passion about flying with us!
Special Interview with Thunderbird Pilot Captain Steve
Spring Break Science Camp! 2022
Join Aurora for five days of hands-on science activities, projects, and experiments in physics, chemistry, biology, engineering and Earth science. You'll spend time each day with Aurora discovering and exploring fascinating concepts in science for the day, and then be off doing your experiments and working on your labs! All classes are recorded and posted here. Click the button below to jump in!
Week 34: Airplane Design
If you are curious how airplanes fly without flapping like a bird, how to read aircraft instruments and tell which runway to land on, what it’s like inside a real cockpit o a 747, and how hypersonic aircraft can go so fast without melting the wings off, then this is the class for you! You’ll learn the major components of aircraft, how to control aircraft in flight, what kinds of weather you can and can’t fly through, how engineers design new aircraft engines, and so much more. Did you know there’s a pilot shortage? A LOT of pilots are nearing retirement age, and it has a lot of folks concerned that we won’t have enough pilots in the future to take people and packages where they need to go!
Flying Machines Party Ideas
If you love the idea of building your own aircraft, then try this fun idea out! You'll find four separate challenges, Station 4 was an "airplane obstacle course" with hula hoops, jump ropes, laundry baskets... you get the idea. For most of it, we used simple materials like paper, pencils, markers, tape, scissors, hot glue, string, paperclips, tacks... things that are easy to find around the house.
For exact building directions for Station 3 (Make a Propeller), please refer to Week 34: Airplane Design recording Part 2 (above) near the end. You will need a small hobby motor, wires, and a digital meter. Be sure your digital multimeter is on the right range for voltage (or you will only see "0.00" on your meter). You will probably generate less than 1 volt using this testing technique, so set it to the milliamp setting to get numbers to show up when you spin the motor shaft.
Week 35: Rocketry, Spaceflight
Soar, zoom, fly, twirl, and gyrate with these amazing hands-on classes which investigate the world of flight. Create flying contraptions from paper airplanes and hang gliders to multi-cell kites. Discover flight dynamics, air pressure, and Bernoulli's principle while creating your own inventions!
Special Bonus Interview with Two Airline Pilots: Carrie & Lisa
Learn from two professional pilots, each with several decades of flying experience! Carrie (top left) has a military training background, flew for the Air Force, and now is captain of an Airbus 320. She also hires pilots for American Airlines! Lisa (top right) took the civilian route to complete her training after earning a biology degree in college, and is currently first officer in an internationally-flying Boeing 777 and has over 25 years with American Airlines. Let's listen in on what these two amazing women have to share on what it's really like to be a pilot, steps you can take today toward becoming a pilot, and the wisdom they to share with the next generation.
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