Description of service: Three hour class involving demonstration flight and hands on flying lessons. Two classes: Entering grades 4 - 5 & Entering grades 6 - 9.
Description from course catalogue:
Imagine yourself as a budding aerospace engineer? Apply the fundamentals of research and design as you build and fly your own walk-along glider! Learn the basics of airframe design and experiment with ballast weights to determine the effects of weight and balance on flight characteristics, a problem which must be addressed for the safety of any flight. Complete your introductory flight instruction by learning how to control the glider using a suitable paddle, both sustaining and steering it in flight. Limit: 16.
Customer: Museum of Science, Courses & Travel, Boston MA
Description of service: Five day summer program with three hour classes involving demonstration flight and hands on flying lessons. Two sections each day: Entering grades 4 - 5 & Entering grades 6 - 9.
Course outline and takehome pages
Customer: Paxton Center School/Wachusett Regional School District, Paxton, MA
Description of service: 6 hour teacher workshop aimed at professional developement points according to the Current Curriculum Frameworks for Science and Technology/Engineering of the Massachusetts Department of Education. Morning session on gliding and fundamentals of aeronautical stability. Afternoon session on sustained flight and history of manned flight.
Course outline
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