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How Things Fly: Distance Challenge

Fly a virtual airplane to your friends and see how far it can travel.

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http://howthingsfly.si.edu/activities/distance-challenge
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How Things Fly: Creating a Shock Wave

Learn how shock waves are generated as aircraft fly close to the speed of sound.

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http://howthingsfly.si.edu/aerodynamics/shock-waves
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How Things Fly: Create Your Own Paper Airplane

Create Your Own Paper Airplane

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Flights of Fancy Story Time: Learning to Fly

The Three Friends have trouble playing a flight video game and then have more fun creating play cockpits where they can pretend to be pilots.

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How Things Fly: Controlled Flight

Learn more about controlled flight with several activities.

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Flights of Fancy Story Time: Which Way Is the Wind Blowing

The three friends help a neighbor whose hat blows away and find out about weathervanes and wind direction. They make windsocks and spinning garden decorations.

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How Things Fly: Bouyancy

Learn how bouyancy makes a hot air balloon or blimp float.

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http://howthingsfly.si.edu/gravity-air/buoyancy
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Flights of Fancy Story Time: Shhh! Satellites

Earth is trying to sleep but the Satellites keep bothering Earth with noisy signals. They are talking in all different languages and sending all kinds of information.

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Flights of Fancy Story Time: Make a Wish on the Wind

Our three friends are inspired by seeds floating on the wind. Afterwards do a whirligig craft.

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Flights of Fancy Story Time: Spaceport on the Moon

Our three friends talk about plans to build a spaceport on the Moon. Then they build a habitat for Ruth's new pet hamster; Rocket; that has everything she needs; just like a Moon spaceport would.

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National Air and Space Museum 650 Jefferson Drive SW
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Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center 14390 Air and Space Museum Parkway
Chantilly, VA 20151

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