Adventure Aerospace
Put a kid in the pilot's seat.
Flight simulators, cockpit demonstrations, and the engineers, controllers and mechanics who make flying possible — brought to your school, event or community.
Adventure Aerospace
Put a kid in the pilot's seat.
Flight simulators, cockpit demonstrations, and the engineers, controllers and mechanics who make flying possible — brought to your school, event or community.
Ages
Elementary – high school
Format
Half or full day
Where
We come to you
Good for
Assemblies, STEM nights, camps
The Idea
Aviation stops being abstract the moment you touch it.
Adventure Aerospace opens students’ eyes to the world of flight by letting them step directly into it — hands on the controls, eyes on the instruments, questions answered by people who do this for a living.
Most students have never met a pilot, an air traffic controller or an aerospace engineer. After a day with us, they’ve met several — and started to picture themselves in the job.
What students experience
Five stations, one afternoon
01
Flight simulation & cockpit demos
Students take the controls, run a checklist and land the aircraft — with an instructor beside them.
02
Aerospace engineering principles
Lift, drag, thrust and weight, demonstrated with things students build and fly themselves.
03
Hands-on maintenance
Real tools, real components, and the discipline of a job where nothing gets skipped.
04
Space & satellite technology
From the runway to orbit — how satellites get there and what they do once they arrive.
05
Career pathway exploration
Pilots, technicians, engineers, controllers, dispatchers — what each does and how you get there from here.
Want a custom station?
Drones, rocketry, weather, women in aviation — tell us your focus and we’ll build the day around it.
Sponsorship
Underwrite a school that couldn't otherwise say yes
Sponsorship covers simulators, equipment transport, materials and staff time so the visit costs the school nothing. Sponsors are recognized on site and in follow-up coverage.
$2,500
Sponsor one half-day school visit
$5,000
Sponsor a full day, all grade levels
In-kind
Simulators, aircraft access, volunteer pilots and engineers