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Amazing Aircraft I
Grades K-5, 50-Minute Duration
Program Fee $3.00 per Student*
Our most popular hands-on program! Learn the different kinds of aircraft and identify the parts of an airplane before building and flying a simple balsa glider. Grades 4-5 add control surfaces to guide their glider’s flight. It ’s an adventure in aviation!
Amazing Aircraft II
Grades 3-8, 50-Minute Duration
Program Fee $4.50 per Student*
Take flight with a rubber-powered airplane! Recommended for older students, Amazing Aircraft II features construction and flight of a larger, propeller powered balsa airplane. Grades 4-8 add control surfaces to guide their airplane’s flight. Launch into the amazing world of aircraft!
Eye on the Sky
Grades K-2, 50-Minute Duration
Program Fee $3.00 per Student*
Investigate the changing sky with a hands-on exploration of common meteorological phenomena. Discover the water cycle’s role in cloud formation and build models of different clouds in an exploration of aviation weather!
Storm Chasers
Grades 3-8, 50-Minute Duration
Program Fee $4.50 per Student*
Explore how weather affects flight in a challenging foul-weather flight simulation. Discover thunderstorms and other weather hazards and how they affect aircraft, and then enter the Flight Sim Zone to embark on a realistic mission into inclement conditions. It’s a thrilling adventure to the edge of aviation!
Flight Simulator Lab
Grades 3-12, 50-Minute Duration
Program Fee $4.50 per Student*
Enter the Museum’s Flight Sim Zone, where every student has the opportunity to control a simulated airplane through several realistic, age-appropriate missions. Using state-of-the-art flight simulation equipment and software, students work in pairs to master aircraft control while flying through a beautiful reproduction of the Bay Area and other locations worldwide.
Introduction to Aviation
Grades 3-6, 90-Minute Duration
Program Fee $6.50 per Student*
Combine the best of two programs and explore aviation from every angle! Students conduct a hands-on inspection of a real airplane, build a flying model glider and try their hand flying a small airplane in the Flight Sim Zone. It’s an all-inclusive aviation experience!
Wright Flight
Grades 3-8, 50-Minute Duration
Program Fee $6.50 per Student*
Discover the history of Wilbur and Orville Wright and their unprecedented scientific adventure to invent the world’s first airplane. Examine a full-scale recreation of their 1903 Flyer and build a beautifully detailed flying model to help take the excitement of the first flight home.
Wright Brothers Experience
Grades 3-8, 90-Minute Duration
Program Fee $10.00 per Student*
Follow in the footsteps of Wilbur and Orville Wright in an immersive 90-minute experience. Build a flying model of their original Wright Flyer and take the controls of the historic 1903 airplane in a flight simulator to attempt a challenging re-creation of its first flight.
*In addition to Museum admission.
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