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Amazing Aircraft II
Grades 3-8, 50-Minute Duration
Program Fee $4.00 per Student*
Take flight with a rubber-powered airplane! Amazing Aircraft features construction and flight of a propeller powered balsa airplane. All students add control surfaces to guide their airplane’s flight. Launch into the amazing world of aircraft!
Flight Planning Lab
Grades 5-12, 90-Minute Duration
Program Fee $6.00 per Student*
Science, math and aviation come together in a three-part experience! Students inspect a small aircraft, use aviation charts to plan a flight between airports, and fly a portion of the planned flight in the Flight Sim Zone. Careful consideration of terrain contours and calculations of fuel consumption and velocity are essential to ensure a safe mission.
Flight Simulator Lab
Grades 3-12, 50-Minute Duration
Program Fee $4.00 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 the Bay Area and the world.
Forces of Flight
Grades 5-8, 50-Minute Duration
Program Fee $3.50 per Student*
Developed in partnership with NASA, students are introduced to the forces of flight through detailed experiments. Students predict, test and measure changing forces using test equipment. Results are shared as students discover how airplanes react to each force of flight. Optional classroom activities are available to extend the experience.
Introduction to Aviation
Grades 3-6, 90-Minute Duration
Program Fee $6.00 per Student*
Combine flight simulation and glider construction to 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!
Skyways
Grades 5-8, 50-Minute Duration
Program Fee $3.50 per Student*
Skyways brings math and aviation together in an intensive Air Traffic Control environment. Students learn how FAA controllers separate and sequence aircraft, and then apply that knowledge with NASA-developed Air Traffic Control simulation software. Small teams of students tackle time, distance and velocity problems in a hands-on exercise to safely command airliners through a checkpoint before time runs out.
Storm Chasers
Grades 3-8, 50-Minute Duration
Program Fee $4.00 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!
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.
*In addition to Museum admission.
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