Science

Physical Sciences: Flight

Model Rocketry

Kite Flying 101 - The basics of where and how to fly a kite.

Wind and Kites

Professor Kite - Rules and Hints for flying kites

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Gander Academy's links on flight, including Amelia Earhart, Hot Air Ballooning, Airships Airplanes of WWI, History of Aviation Science of Flight, Charles Lindbergh, Paper Airplanes, the Wright Brothers, and teacher resources.

First Flight - Key to the Wright brother's success was their methodical engineering and testing that went "beyond the trial and error methods of their contemporaries." Best clicks are the multimedia wind tunnel and bicycle balance experiments, though the require Shockwave software for your browser.

How We Made the First Flight - illustrated with photographs from the National Archives, tells the first-person story of the Wright brothers' first four flights. It is filled with amusing anecdotes such as the fact that it was a coin toss that determined that Wilbur would be the first to attempt to fly on December 14, 1903.

To Fly is Everything - is the story of how two honest, straightforward, hard-working Americans accomplished something fantastic and magical -- creating a craft of stick and fabric that mounted the air like the chariots of the gods, opening the skies to all humankind.

Wright Brothers National Memorial - This National Memorial (and associated Web site) tell their story.

Wright Flyer Online - A full-scale replica of the historic 1903 Wright Flyer is preparing to undergo tests in the world's largest wind tunnel at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.