Timeline for 90 minute youth activity, what to do?
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| Nov 29, 2023 at 11:07 | comment | added | Sixtyfive | oh, and since you seem to be in the US, you might want to get in touch with flitetest.com ... the owner is both a real-airplane pilot as well as a practicing Christian, which seems to have some overlap with your own life :) | |
| Nov 29, 2023 at 11:03 | comment | added | Sixtyfive | the "8-18 y/o young man" (why only boys? take the girls, too!) i was, plus all of my friends at that age would have LOVED a tour around an airplane! one of my most cherished childhood memories was, when at age 8, i was allowed into the cockpit by the flight attendant and the pilot let me turn the auto pilot's heading knob. imagine doing that as an 8 y/o and the ginormous 737 you're on starts doing something because of it! also, what is being discussed in the comments: absolutely build small freeflying foam airplanes together :) | |
| Nov 29, 2023 at 10:12 | comment | added | mb21 | I would absolute love to look at your plane. And can they take turns sitting in the plane? Can they (or you?) move control surfaces or even turn on the engine (safely without flying away)? | |
| Nov 28, 2023 at 1:37 | comment | added | slebetman | @DKNguyen The Delta Dart could be built in about 5 minutes especially if you bring pre-cut kits. It's just a bunch of flat triangles. IMHO the only real complicated part is making the dihedral. If you want to avoid that step another easy to build model is the Squirrel: rubber-power.com/make-it.htm - no dihedral, all straight lines and 90 degree angles. The Squirrel is probably easier to build since you can build it directly onto tissue avoiding a separate covering step. My only bias for Delta Dart is because I think it flies better but both are good beginner builds | |
| Nov 27, 2023 at 20:06 | comment | added | Richard | "We could go look at the plane I fly, but.. meh" - That sounds absolutely fan-bloody-tastic. Do that. | |
| Nov 27, 2023 at 17:56 | comment | added | DKNguyen | @slebetman I think that would take way longer than 90 minutes but is on the right track. Perhaps simpler that could be built much faster so they could spend most of the time launching them and trying to adjust the CG and trim, rather than building them. For example, just stick fuses with monolithic card stock plank wings. Maybe bendy wire like the way pipecleaners are that they could use to re-adjust the trim. If too simple then maybe add a rubber band propeller. I think the time spent adding a propeller would be more interesting than cutting/gluing balsa sticks and covering wings. | |
| Nov 27, 2023 at 12:43 | comment | added | Dave Gremlin | I sometimes do a charity day taking disabled kids (& their families) up, for about fifteen minutes, in my PA-28. It's surprising how amazed and awestruck they are by it. | |
| Nov 27, 2023 at 8:45 | comment | added | slebetman | Do you have experience building model airplanes other than paper airplanes? I mean, the balsa and tissue variety. A classic AMA activity is to build the delta dart: outerzone.co.uk/plan_details.asp?ID=7931 . It's fairly easy to build and you can teach them about trimming. | |
| Nov 27, 2023 at 7:14 | comment | added | Michael | I’d love to look at airplanes and airports and have somebody explain how it all works to me. I also think you underestimate the appeal of going somewhere where the normal public can’t go. | |
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