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
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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 to create a variety of shapes from a fixed area of cardboard. Cut to shape but use all the scraps so as to maintain the same area. 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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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
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Visitors become exhibitors.
During the summer season 2024, our T&S Bus attended all of Shuttleworth's centenary events.
While we ran the Aerolution activity in our huge awnings, OWMAC (Old Warden Model Aero Club ran the Aeroscale glider extravaganza. Average engagement time for youngsters was 30 mins, some staying and returning for more during the day/weekend. This potential to publish the challenge ahead of an event would encourage family members to attend to see their youngster pit against all comers.
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Challenge
Many children worked tirelessly to make their creations perform stunts. In this way you can identify potential engineering talent in your local community.
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Design Service
Our design service (FOC subject to orders of gliders) can create flying gliders of your key exhibits. Plus merchandise for your shop and gift packs for other achievements.
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Ecology
Cardboard based - all materials biodegradable. Typically £2.50 per unit.
Can be painted, coloured​
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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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
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
These resources are designed to enable you to get a team to the BMFA payload challenges.
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Using our Aerolution curriculum you can teach a group about flight with very 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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Round The Pole can be done in a sports hall so you can test powered flight of your concepts before going full RC.
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We scale up our concepts is such a way as demonstrates the issues with scaling dimensions, areas and volumes.
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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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​Payload Pal is suitable for BMFA challenges 1-3. Watch our own developmental flights here
1. Egg (3 Medium sized eggs)
2. Cube (4 Rubik's cubes)
3. Distance. (Block of wood)
4. Polystyrene Spheres
These aircraft can be made from sheet card/polystyrene/depron/correx/foamboard/balsawood as we have proved in the past.
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You will need
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Single wall corrugated card
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Postal wide sellotape equivalent
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Craft knives, scissors etc
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Cool melt Glue gun
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Gaffer tape
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Barbeque sticks
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Gravity Launcher
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Cocktail sticks
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Our AEROLUTION kits OR access to a laser cutter and buy an educational license from us.