BUILD IT! FLY IT!
Fascinated by flight?
Learn about aerodynamics and exercise your creativity in our Build It! Fly It! exhibit. Engineer your own flying machine using colorful foam pieces, then place your invention onto a vertical conveyor system and crank it up through the rafters to launch. Will it fly, flutter, or flop? Following in the footsteps of scientists and inventors, redesign and retest your creation to try to change your results.
Science of flight
Try out our Bernoulli Blower—a machine that delivers a steady flow of high-velocity vertical air—to explore Bernoulli’s Principle. This principle, key to the science of flight, explains how air pressure is related to air speed, and describes what happens when air moves around objects. Introduce balls of different densities and scarves into the air stream and observe what happens!
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