This session gives Explorers hands-on practice in conducting the preflight inspection of an aircraft.

In this session, participants will learn how and why to conduct a preflight inspection of an aircraft.

In this session, participants will learn about the forces that act on an airplane in flight, as well as the primary control surfaces of a plane.

This session introduces Explorers to the variety of careers in the aviation industry.

This session helps Explorers understand the four forces of flight.

In this session, participants will expand on their discussion of the activities in the Introductory: Power Plants session by exploring Newton’s Third Law.

In this session, participants will explore aviation instrumentation more deeply, examine how the Global Positioning System works, further explore the limitations and failures of instrument systems, and discuss human factors.

In this session, participants will direct air traffic in a web-based simulator and design their own airport runway configuration.

In this session, participants will build and test their own gliders.

In this session, participants will more deeply explore the engineering considerations with different types of planes. They will consider engineering trade-offs with different airfoil shapes, different wing shapes, and different control surfaces and powered versus non-powered flight.