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Fun Sites for Students

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Try your hand with the 1903 Wright Flyer, learn the parts of an airplane, demonstrate yaw, roll and pitch using the space shuttle, download activities to do at home and puzzles and games.

NBAA's AvKids
Smart Parts - learn the different parts of an airplane and what each part is used for.
Memory Match - match each airplane shape to its partner.
Plane Slide-Puzzle - scramble and solve two slide puzzles.
Wright Again - follow the technical development of the first successful powered airplane.
Also an airplane parts crossword, word search and color page and a phonetic alphabet wordsearch.

Colorado Aviation Historical Society (CAHS)
The CASH acquires, restores, preserves and provides for public display of aircraft and other historical objects, documents and things of present or historical interest or value in connection with the development and history of aviation in the State of Colorado and elsewhere. The Society also sponsors and annual, 16-hour Aviation Archeology class which includes field trips to sites within the State. The Society's Hall of Fame is located at the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum.

K-8 Aeronautics Textbook
Online textbook for beginning and intermediate students to learn basic aeronautics. Includes lessons in Spanish.

Rolls-Royce Tour Through a Jet Engine
Follow a particle of air through the four stages of a jet engine.

EAA's AirVenture Museum
Take a virtual tour of the museum, see an interactive demonstration of pitch, roll and yaw and hear interviews with 'timeless voices of aviation'.

NASA Glen Research Center's Beginners Guide to Aeronautics
Includes guides to low and high-speed aerodynamics, propulsion, rockets and kites.