Aviation

San Diego City Public Schools, CA

Astronomy, Space & Cosmology: K-12 TLC Guide NASA: K-12 TLC Guide. Physics: K-12 TLC Guide. Science: K-12 TLC Guide.

Transportation: K-12 TLC Guide

Aircraft, Airports, Aviators, Organizations & Museums, Space Planes, Speed of Sound
Principles of Flight
Safety
History
Civilian, Military

Aviation

AeroWeb.
AirNav:
- Airport Information.
- Fix Information.
- Fuel Plan.
- Navaid Information.
American Flyers.
The Aviation Home Page.
Aviation Universities, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
The Aviation Weather Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
BBC:

Why Churchill Ordered UFO Cover-Up.

BLS Career Information: Pilot, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Careers in Aerospace: K-12 TLC Guide.
Earth and Sky:
- How Insects Fly.
Federal Aviation Administration, United States Department of Transportation.
Flight, Dragonfly.
How Airplanes Fly.
How Engines Work, How Stuff Works.
The K-8 Aeronautics Internet Textbook, University of California at Davis.
NASA:
- Aero-Space Technology Enterprise.
- Airfoil Simulator.
- Beginner's Guide to Aerodynamics.
- Introduction to Flight Testing.
- Personal Aircraft: Sci-Fi Meets Reality.
National Public Radio:

PBS:
- Flying Free.
- Flying High: The Science of Flight.
Science Update (audio: 1:25), American Association for the Advancement of Science:
- Making Trucks More Aerodynamic: 11/29/00.
- Optimizing Airplanes: 01/29/01.
Thinking Fountain From A to Z, Science Museum of Minnesota:
- Parachuting Pinwheel.
- Rocket.
- Up, Up, And Away!.
- Whirling Wonders.
The Weather Notebook, Mount Washington Observatory:

Lidar.

The Yellow Airplane:
- Airplane Stuff for Kids.
- Aviation and Airplane Builders Tool's & Supplies.
- Aviation Server Sites.
- Aviation Weather.
- How Do Airplanes Work?.
- USS Kitty Hawk.

Aviation

Aircraft

The Aviation Art of Peter Andrew Jones.
A Brief History of the Invention of the Airplane, The Wright House.

Grumman, Leroy Randle: K-12 TLC Guide.

National Public Radio (audio):
Spruce Goose: K-12 TLC Guide.
United States Air Force Museum, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base:
- Gliders.
- Missiles.
- Space Vehicles.
Blimps and Zeppelins:
Gossamer Condor:
- MIT.
- Nihon University.
- PBS.
- Progressive Engineer.
- Smithsonian Museum.
- Society for Amateur Scientists.
- Internet Movie Database.
Helicopters:
- Sikorsky, Igor: K-12 TLC Guide.
- Helicopter History, University of Maryland.
- History Channel:
  - 04/29/1975: The Largest Helicopter Evacuation on Record Begins Removing the Last Americans from Saigon
- National Public Radio (audio):
  - The Osprey: 4/10/00 (4:30).
- Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
Hot Air Balloons:
- Montgolfier, Joseph Michel: K-12 TLC Guide.
- Piccard, Auguste & Piccard, Jean Felix: K-12 TLC Guide.
- Balloon Gondolas, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
- History Channel:
  - 10/04/1861: President Lincoln Observes a Balloon Demonstration Near Washington, D.C.
- TheHistoryNet:
- Japanese Air Balloon Bombings Against North America, Canadian Government.

K-12 TLC Teachable Moments

11/21/1783: First Human Flight Made in World's First Hot Air Balloon.

Aviation

Airports

Auckland International Airport.
National Public Radio (audio):
- San Diego International Airport: 12/4/00 (3:29).
Public Landing Sites in Indiana, AirNav.
Will Rogers World Airport.

Aviation

Aviators

Astronauts: K-12 TLC Guide.

Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame.
In Search Of The 1st African-American Female Pilot, The Black Collegian Online .
New Zealand Fighter Pilots Museum.
Research Pilot Biographies, NASA: K-12 TLC Guide.

Centennial of Flight:
- Corrigan, Douglas.
- Curtiss, Glenn Hammond.
- Hughes, Howard Robard.
- Selfridge, Thomas E.
Ader, Clement: K-12 TLC Guide.
Bl�riot, Louis: K-12 TLC Guide.
Boyington, Gregory "Pappy": K-12 TLC Guide.
Brown, Jesse LeRoy: K-12 TLC Guide.

Brown, Willa: K-12 TLC Guide.
Bustov, William Paul: K-12 TLC Guide.
Cayley, Sir George: K-12 TLC Guide.
Charles, Ralph, National Public Radio: 1/10/00 (4:00).
Chanute, Octave: K-12 TLC Guide.
Cheung, Katherine Sui Fun: K-12 TLC Guide.
Cochran, Jacqueline: K-12 TLC Guide.
Coleman, Bessie; K-12 TLC Guide
Curtiss, Glenn: K-12 TLC Guide.
Doolittle, Jimmy: K-12 TLC Guide.
Earhart, Amelia: K-12 TLC Guide.
Fulton Jr., Robert Edison, National Public Radio: 5/30/00 (6:54).
Hughes, Howard: K-12 TLC Guide.
Ingalls, Laura: K-12 TLC Guide.
Langley, Samuel Pierpont: K-12 TLC Guide.
Lilienthal, Otto: K-12 TLC Guide.
Lindbergh, Charles: K-12 TLC Guide.
Markham, Beryl: K-12 TLC Guide.

McDonnell, James S.: K-12 TLC Guide.

Nordhoff, Charles, Writer's Almanac.
Pearse, Richard William: K-12 TLC Guide.
Powers, Francis Gary: K-12 TLC Guide.
Rickenbacker, Eddie: K-12 TLC Guide.
Ryan, T. Claude: K-12 TLC Guide.
Sikorsky, Igor: K-12 TLC Guide.
Tuskegee Airmen: K-12 TLC Guide.
Udet, Ernst: K-12 TLC Guide.
von Eschwege, Rudolf: K-12 TLC Guide.
Wright, Orville: K-12 TLC Guide.
Wright, Wilbur: K-12 TLC Guide.
Yeager, Chuck: k-12 TLC Guide.

Aviation

Civilian History

Military History of Aviation: K-12 TLC Guide.

K-12 TLC Case Studies of Air Disasters.
K-12 TLC the Hijacked Flights of September 11, 2001.
K-12 TLC Guide to Transportation Museums.
K-12 TLC Guide to the Wright Brothers.

05/20/1939: Pan American Initiates First Transatlantic Mail Service:

BBC:

Berlin Airlift (06/26/1848 - 09/30/1949): K-12 TLC Guide.
A Brief History of the Invention of the Airplane, The Wright House.
Canadian Aviation Museum.
The Centennial of Flight Commission.
Eureka: Multimedia Tour of 20th Century Inventions, ThinkQuest:
- Reinvent the Past: Famous Inventions.
First Flight Society.
Hindenburg Disaster (May 6, 1937):
- History Channel.
- Navy Lakehurst Historical Society.
- New York Times.
- Newspaper Collectors Society of America.
- Radio Days (audio).
- Writer's Almanac.
The History Channel:
- 11/02/1947: The Spruce Goose Flies.
- 04/20/1978: Korean Air Lines Jet Is Forced Down over the Soviet Union.
The History of Aviation and Modern Rocketry, The Ultimate Space Place.
How We Made the First Flight by Orville Wright.
Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum.

National Naval Aviation Museum.

National Public Radio (audio):
- The History of Alaska Airlines: 2/3/00 (4:45).
- Ralph Charles, 100-year-old Pilot: 1/10/00 (4:00).
New York Times:

Pearse, Richard William: K-12 TLC Guide.
Texas State Historical Association:

08/23/1937: Carl Crane Makes First Fully Automated Landing.

To Fly Is Everything, Mississippi State University.
U.S. Postal Service.
The Wright Brothers Patent the Flying Machine, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

A Daring Flight, PBS.

Aviation

Military History

Civilian History of Aviation: K-12 TLC Guide.
War: K-12 TLC.
World War I Air War: K-12 TLC Guide.

1940 Battle of Britain: K-12 TLC Guide

08/06/1945: The U.S. Drops an Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan: K-12 TLC Guide.

06/26/1948 - 09/30/1949 Berlin Airlift: K-12 TLC Guide.

09/11/2001: The Hijacked Flights of September 11, 2001: K-12 TLC.

Death Of An Air Ace, 1918, Eyewitness.
The History Channel:
The History of Aviation and Modern Rocketry, The Ultimate Space Place.
TheHistoryNet:
- F-105 Thunderchief: U.S. Workhorse in Vietnam.
- Italy's Breda Ba.65.
National Public Radio:
New York Times:

09/28/1924: U.S. Army Planes Complete First Round-the-World-Flight (175 d).

Tuskegee Airmen: K-12 TLC Guide.

World War I Zeppelin Raids, The British Archives.

Aviation

Organizations
&
Museums

The Wings of Freedom Museum.

Academy of Model Aeronautics.
Aviation/Aircraft Museums, The Yellow Airplane.
Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, National Park Service.
Grissom Air Museum.
The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery.
The Institute of Aviation, University of Illinois.
Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum.
Kennedy Space Center.
National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
The New England Air Museum.
Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia.
United States Air Force Museum, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

Aviation

Principles
of
Flight

The Aviators' Journal.
Brown University.
Cislunar Aerospace.
Federal Aviation Administration (pdf).
Florida International University.
NASA.
U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps.
Yesmag.com.

Bernoulli Principle:

eHow.com.
NASA.
Science Kids.
Thinkquest.
YouTube.

Projectiles:

Aviation

Safety

Safety: K-12 TLC Guide.

Airport Security:

National Public Radio:

The Limits of the Human Eye.

Bird Strikes:

01/15/2009 Crash on New York City's Hudson River: K-12 TLC Guide.

FAA:
- Airport Wildlife Hazard Mitigation Home Page.
- FAA Wildlife Strike Databases.
- Wildlife Strikes to Civil Aircraft.
National Public Radio:

National Public Radio:

Aviation

K-12 TLC Guide to Historic Firsts in Science, Invention and Technology

Aviation

Primary:
- Hot Air Henry, Mary Calhoun:
  - Amazon.com.
Adult:
- Gann, Ernest Kellogg: K-12 TLC Guide.
- The Red Fighter Pilot, Baron Mannfred von Richthofen.

Aviation

K-12 TLC Teachable Moments

05/20/1932: The First Transatlantic Flights: Lindbergh, Earhart & Pan Am.

08/19: Birthdate of Orville Wright, Charles Bolden & Gene Roddenberry.

09/07/1940: Nazi Germany Begins Its Blitzkrieg Warfare Against England.

11/21/1783: First Human Flight Made in World's First Hot Air Balloon.


Aldrin, Edwin Eugene (Buzz) Armstrong, Neil Coleman, Bessie Earhart, Amelia von Richthofen, Baron Manfred Wright, Orville Wright, Wilbur Yeager, Chuck

Grades K-3:
- The Franklin Institute Science Museum:
  - Falling Paper.
  - Working Wings.
Grades K-4:
- NASA:
  - K-4 Guide to Aeronautics,
    Dryden Flight Research Center.
Grades 4-6:
- The Franklin Institute Science Museum:
  - Paperplane Flying Circus.
  - A Proper Propeller.
Grade: 6:
- Hatchet, Julie Nunes,
  San Diego County Office of Education, CA:
  - The Physics of Flight.
Grades 7-12:
- Two Approaches to Formation Flying (pdf), NASA.
Other:
- A Daring Flight, PBS.
- How Things Fly, Smithsonian Institution.
- NASA:
  - Flight Testing Newton's Laws, Dryden Flight Research Center.

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This guide last edited 02/18/2012
This guide last revised 04/05/2010