Flight

Stream Premise

  • In pursuing their quest for flight, humans expand both their world and their intellectual abilities.

Simulation Descriptions

    • Learn and apply the Principles of Flight to paper airplanes, birds and insects, kites, hot air balloons, and planes.

    • Discover how insects and birds use their wings for flight and create an electronic presentation to share.

    • Build kites and fly them; adjusting weight, surface area and angle to improve your flying.

    • Construct hot air balloons and launch them; calculating maximum height, volume, mass and density. 

    • Visit the Flight Adventure Deck at Naval Aviation Museum and use Flight Simulators.