Here’s an interesting sighting. Squirrels in a brochure for model plane workshops in India.
Category Archives: Outreach
Model airplane demo at orphanage
Here are a couple of shots from a model airplane demo by Sudha Menon and friends at an orphanage in Palarivattom, Ernakulam, Kerala (Janaseva Kendram, Aluva).
Model Planes and Schools
Lloyd Shales and friends have been taking bookings of about 1.5 days of school time in order to share the science and fun of model aviation. My favourite artifact from his presentation is the wild turkey feather. It’s so light yet extremely rigid and strong.
That block of wood is a Jig for setting the dihedral angle of the Minnow which is the plane he takes to the classrooms. They use that jig and CA glue to set the wing angle.
He also has lots of printed materials and a test at the end.
I feel that flight is interesting and I’m actually making a Web site with everything you need to know about how flight works and many of it’s applications (natural and engineered).
Anybody want to hang out a bit this weekend?
This Sunday there is a festival in Ottawa. If you’d like to come and attend or help with a Squirrel workshops (or bring your own design), please contact me! I’m short of volunteers at the moment! Or if you’d like to just bring a plane and have some fun flying it and showing it around during the festival that’s cool too.
If you’d like to have a model airplane event in your city, contact me in case I can send you some planes!
Workshop in Kerala, Kochi, India
Sudha Menon is running a workshop on 29th & 30th August. Here is a brochure and a couple of pictures from the previous workshop.
