AEROSQUARE kits for public events and activity days
AEROSQUARE​
A first experience in glider making beginning with a square of cardboard and culminating in a delta glider that flies really well.
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Activity time
Ranges from 20 to 60 mins depending on age and brief.
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Age:
9+
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Next Step
Leads in to Aerolution Sequence Kit
Customers:
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The Air league
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BMFA
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Shuttleworth Collection Discovery Zone
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​Hardware Required
Ideally you will invest in our gravity launcher that is compatible with gliders of many types.​​​
AEROLUTION set of 4 gliders which tell a story of aircraft anatomy
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An immersive experience in glider making in a variety of contrasting formats.
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Activity time (min)
Typically 30 mins x 5 depending on age and brief.
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Age:
11+
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Next Step
Leads in to Aerolution Sequence Kit
Customers:
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The Air league
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BMFA
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Shuttleworth Collection Discovery Zone
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​Hardware Required
Ideally you will invest in our gravity launcher that is compatible with gliders of many types
Deltas are a great way to explore variations in aircraft structure for different purposes.
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Activity time (min)
Typically 40 mins
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Age:
11+
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Next Step
Leads in to
Payload Delta
Customers:​
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Shuttleworth Collection Discovery Zone
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Hardware Required
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Longbow launcher
CANARDS
Compare a Canard glider with conventional
​Two gliders of equal wing area compared
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Activity time (min)
Typically 40 mins
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Age:
11+
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Customers:​
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Shuttleworth Collection Discovery Zone
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Hardware Required
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Longbow launcher
MULTIWING Wing shape and aspect ratio comparison
MULTIWING​
Use this kit of card parts and template set to create a variety of wing shapes from a fixed area of cardboard.
Use the templates to cut wing panels and assemble them in various orders. All offcuts must be included in the wing.
Then test and fly to see which wing shapes are the best.
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Activity time
Ranges from 60-90 mins depending on age and brief.
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Age:
11+​
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Customers:
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Hobby King Open Day 2018
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BMFA
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Shuttleworth Collection Discovery Zone
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Home Ed Groups
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Hardware Required
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Longbow launcher
AEROSCALE
Making to look like real aircraft. They fly well too!
Comes with mini catapult.
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Activity time (min)
Typically 40 mins
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Age:
11+
Customers:​
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Shuttleworth Collection Discovery Zone
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The Joystick Club of Great Britain
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Museum of Berkshire Aviation
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Hardware Required
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Longbow launcher
Aeroscale can be a bespoke Educational provision for your facility
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Enhance your educational provision with flying scale models of your exhibits/collection
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Guaranteed to fly
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Fully assembled without glue/sharps
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Cost effective
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Ecological
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Safe
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Encourages extension
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Related directly to our Aeroschool curriculum
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National Events at your facility for local schools to return and compete​​
BIGGER AND BIGGER
Compare a glider with one half its linear size
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Activity time (min)
Typically 40 mins
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Age:
11+
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​Hardware Required
Ideally you will invest in our gravity launcher that is compatible with gliders of many types
STRUCTURES
Multiple activities exploring airframe structures
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Activity time (min)
Typically 40 mins
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Age:
11+
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Customers:​
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Shuttleworth Collection Discovery Zone
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​Hardware Required
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AIRCRAFT DESIGN
Now you are ready to design your own glider
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Activity time (min)
Typically 40 mins
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Age:
11+
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Next Step
Leads in to Aerolution Sequence Kit
Customers:​
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Shuttleworth Collection Discovery Zone
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​Hardware Required
Ideally you will invest in our gravity launcher that is compatible with gliders of many types
HARDWARE
An craft experience in glider making to looke like real aircraft
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Activity time (min)
Typically 40 mins
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Age:
11+
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Next Step
Leads in to Aerolution Sequence Kit
Customers:​
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Shuttleworth Collection Discovery Zone
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​Hardware Required
Ideally you will invest in our gravity launcher that is compatible with gliders of many types
PAYLOAD PAL
Resources designed to enable you to get a school team to the BMFA payload challenges.
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Using more of our curriculum ideas kits and concepts you can teach a group about flight with relatively little expertise yourself.
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For larger aircraft you will eventually need to access a model flying club or certificated RC pilot to test your designs but lots of work can be achieved before this.
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We make gliders and then scale up these concepts when they have proven their worth.
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Our Payload Pal kits enable you to build and adjust your airframes before deciding on a final geometry. They are designed to break safely if they crash so you spend little time repairing them before trying again.
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These videos record our Aer0nauts teams progress and eventual tied win in 2025. Your journey will be different byut thats what its all about. This resource is how we did it - hopefully its of use to other schools.
