Monday
What are the manatees?
What force does a parachute use to oppose gravity.
What is drag?
This was Kaiden's role in paper airplane factory.
What is the super fast UPS?
The "Ghost" of the WWI gallery inhabits this artifact.
The Canadarm is from this country.
What is Canada?
This was the name of the plane with trusses that we made on Monday.
This was the first theme of Kaiden's green glass door game
what is things that are orange?
This animal was the first animal to ever be sent to space.
What are fruit flies?
This was the kind lady who made our awesome F-22 templates for us.
Who is Roxi?
Emma's favorite part of the PCW is found under the wing of this aircraft, which also happens to be Jonah's favorite aircraft in the museum. (FULL designation required).
What is the P-38L Lightning II
The aft wheels of the blackbird are made out of composite material containing these two materials.
What is Aluminum and Rubber?
This is the name of the planes we flew in the simulators.
what is the SR-22 Cirrus
This docent gave us an impromptu tour of the Apollo gallery and used to work on the F-22 and Darkstar programs doing composites.
Who is Kirk?
The first recorded flying objects were insects this many years ago.
What is 400 million?
If you wanted to do every single interactive, this is the total number of facts you would've needed in the CSSG.
What is 18?
This docent also has her private pilot's license and talked to us about the air traffic control tower and what it takes to be a pilot.
Who is Helen?
What is the AV-8C Harrier?
What is the Theia-Gaia impact (explanations acceptable).
This is the name for an aircraft that doesn't carry passengers, cargo, or weapons, and instead is used to gather data for further development.
What is a testbed?
This is not the fibers but in composites, epoxy generally fills this role, and is responsible for holding the fibers together and giving off-axis strength.
What is the matrix?
What is the Center of Pressure?
This is the name for when a force acts at a distance from a point, and is the value we were solving for during the balance activity.
What is Torque?
This educator helped us with almost all of our education programs this week. She turned our play-doh into titanium for us.
Who is Rachel?
This person just got a fresh haircut and was one of the educators who led us through the flying gizmos show. They also use they/them pronouns!
Who is Vega?
This is the full technical name for Carbon fiber.
What are CFRP's (Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymers)?