Explore the world around flight. From airports and air traffic control to navigation, helicopters, drones, and the future of cleaner, greener aviation — discover the huge system that gets aircraft safely from place to place.
Join an interactive 12-week course for 8–16 year-old students exploring everything around and beyond the airplane — airspace, navigation, rotorcraft, and the future of flight — through hands-on activities, role-play, and small-group exploration.
Start at the airport: what all its parts do, and how aircraft move safely on the ground before they ever take off.
Meet the controllers who keep the skies orderly, and try the radio call-and-readback that pilots use to talk to the tower.
Discover how the sky is divided into zones with different rules, and why aircraft must keep clear of each other's invisible wake.
Retrace how early pilots found their way with landmarks and a compass, using the same dead-reckoning tricks explorers relied on.
Follow the radio beacons that guide aircraft across the country, like invisible spokes pointing the way.
Play with the idea behind GPS — locating yourself by distance from satellites — and see how modern aircraft fly straight to any point on Earth.
Read a real navigation chart, connect the waypoints, and learn how pilots plan a journey before they fly it.
See how precision approaches guide an aircraft down to the runway with pinpoint accuracy, even when the pilot can't see it.
Find out how a spinning rotor becomes a wing, why helicopters need a tail rotor, and how they do what airplanes can't.
Watch helicopters hover and fly, and explore the fast-growing world of drones and the jobs they do.
Explore how aviation is racing to get cleaner, with electric, hybrid and hydrogen aircraft that could reshape flight.
Imagine the aircraft of the future and the materials that will build them, and discover the many careers that could take you into aviation.
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