Step into the cockpit of your virtual aircraft and gear up for five exciting missions in the Flight Lab. Your task? Design the perfect aircraft for each specific mission. You'll choose the best wing, body shape, and engine from a variety of options, each detailed with descriptions and dimensions to help guide your decisions. Ensure your virtual aircraft is optimally configured to navigate through different flight dynamics and achieve mission success.
Watch the introductory video on the principles of flight, or dive right into your first challenge. Are you ready to soar?
In Flight Lab, students aged 11-16 can explore the intricacies of aircraft design through a series of mission-based challenges. This educational game allows students to apply their knowledge of physics and engineering by selecting the most appropriate wings, body shapes, and engines for various flight scenarios.
Each component choice comes with detailed descriptions and dimensions, aiding in their decision-making process. This interactive, multiple-choice format helps students understand how different design elements affect an aircraft's performance in realistic flight conditions. Perfect for integrating STEM concepts, Flight Lab challenges students to think critically and apply their knowledge in a dynamic and engaging way.
This animation explains how thrust, drag, lift, and weight work together to make flight. Use this knowledge in Flight School, Challenge and Arcade, to build planes that can fly.
Principles of Flight
Flight school, is an interactive activity that gives you an introduction to the history of flight and how technology has developed to make flying what it is today.
Flight School
Flight challenge is an interactive activity that takes you on an adventure of different scenarios, each requiring a different type of plane. Your mission is to build the plane most suitable for each challenge.
Flight Challenge
The aviation industry is at a turning point; the next twenty years will see it having to respond to a series of challenges, Your mission is to explore how we can overcome some of these challenges. Download this classroom resource to discuss your ideas.
Future Flights
Now that you have mastered the principles of flight, you are ready to put your skills to the test in Flight Arcade. This game lets you adjust the thrust, angle, and duration, to carry your plane over to the landing strip.
Flight Arcade
Design a rollercoaster by completing a series of challenges. Change the track features and see how different designs effect the speed of the rollercoaster.
Formula for Thrills
Find the balance between cost, pollution and efficiency to keep Energy Island from grinding to a halt!
Energy Island
Discover how different energy technologies can be used to power a farm. Design a system that meets demand whilst minimising cost and environmental impact.
Energy Farm
The future of mobility is digital... with self-driving vehicles, passengers can be transported without a driver! Program a self-driving car to transport passengers.
Self Drive Challenge
Join the STARship crew on their first inter galactic mission as seek to secure a sustainable future for us all and to protect Earths resources.
Decarbonisation Challenge
The Infinity STARship is our one stop shop to explore our quizzes and visit other interactives in the Arcade Plaza.
Infinity STARship
