Time will tell!

Since that post in GD about the ‘Tornado flypast’ the other day during the school visit; I’ve been giving this thread some thought and when I have more time I will try to gather some observations together.

On the subject of making a topic interesting and engaging for young people, whilst the Tornado flypast was exciting, their real involvement came from very simple exercises like: making a paper plane; answering some questions about the scientific principles involved in flight; fair tests; launching their planes alongside the Varsity in Hangar 2; repeating the test with ‘the plane launcher’; and then watching my attempts to explain why some planes had gone further when they threw them as compared to the ‘launcher’.

Well something has worked! 🙂 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25034143

According to the Preface in the last edition the 24th Edition deadlines are as follows:

Images – 10th January 2014

Comments & notes – 1st March 2014

The contact details are also included – to save filling his spam folder I won’t post the email address; I’ve PM’d you the details.

The dispersal points at Winthorpe do not blend straight in to circular pad as shown in #5, some have more of a ‘lollipop ‘ shape with a longer straight section of concrete off the taxiway – would these still be of interest to you?

I’ll try and get an aerial view uploaded to the museum website.

Thanks Jim, as you should know by now, any positive publicity for NAM and aviation in general is good by my reckoning! 😉

A combination of methods Jim

http://www.newarkairmuseum.org/education.html

http://www.ahleducation.org.uk/venues_newark.html

Plus some referrals and a good number of repeat visits – often over time frames of several years.

Since September schools from: Lincs (3); North East Lincs (2); Notts (4); South Yorks (1)

This autumn the school visit side of life at the museum has been really rewarding – 10 different school groups hosted since term restarted in September! 🙂