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Simple Aerospace
What forces and materials help airplanes fly?
This summer camp theme explores Simple Aerospace.
| Project: | Description: | Related concepts and machines: |
| Principles of Flight: Forces and Axes |
From NASA: Principles of Flight Learn the four Forces of Flight and the three Axes. |
Mathematical Axes used in machining |
| Styrofoam Glider | From NASA: Build and improve on a McEagle Glider. (Note: Print 2 templates per participant – one to cut, one for reference.) | Materials, pattern tracing |
| Structures and Materials |
From NASA: Structures and Material: Composites, compare strength and weight of various materials – from wood to metal to composites. |
Granite Bed Lathe, Blanchard Lathe, Materials used in Innovation Station |
| Spectral Measurement |
From NASA: Make a Spectroscope. An object’s light absorption spectrum provides valuable information about its composition, temperature, movement, etc. So how do we measure light absorption, and make a spectroscope? (Note: Some of this was unclear to our students, so here’s a version of the activity with APM Comments) |
Measurement, J&L Optical Comparator, James Hartness |
We collected these free resources online, and combined they make about 4 hours of activities.
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