For those who cannot make it to the museum, live virtual visits are available to bring the museum to you. Virtual sessions can be for a group meeting in one place or for people who join individually in the case of at-home learning.

Virtual Tours aren’t just for students. Tired of online meetings and need an interesting break for your team? A live virtual tour through our hangar may be what your group needs.


Virtual Hangar Tour

Spend an hour virtually in the LSFM hangars touring the historic planes on a “walk and talk” question and answer tour. Your museum guide will tell stories and describe the features of our Warbirds while virtual participants ask questions.  Participants can watch from one location or login individually to bring a home-based group together. As an added bonus, we’ll go “behind the chains” to see parts of the planes that cannot be viewed in person – including cockpits and bomb bays.

Virtual Tours are conducted using Zoom, GoToMeeting or other platforms and login information is sent to the coordinator prior to the live event. Equipment check sessions may be scheduled prior to the event by request.

Availability: Wednesday through Saturday, starting 10am – 4pm. (after-hours sessions may be arranged for those out of state)

Session length: 50 minutes to 1 hour

Fee: $100 per session

Click to reserve your Virtual Hangar Tour.  Note: this link will take you to the Field Trip Reservation Form.  Some of the information requested will not pertain to Distance Learning events.


Virtual Classes

In a Virtual Class, museum instructors will focus on a scientific or historical theme and teach concepts using museum aircraft on display. Participants can watch from one location or login individually to bring a home-based class together.  Choose from the topics below for your Virtual Class, and if you like, instructors can spend some of the session time giving and overview of the other plans in the hangar. 

Availability: Wednesday through Saturday, starting 10am – 4pm. (after-hours sessions may be arranged for those out of state.)

Session length: 50 minutes to 1 hour.

Fee: $175 per session.

Click to reserve your Virtual Hangar Class.   Note: this link will take you to the Field Trip Reservation Form.  Some of the information requested will not pertain to Distance Learning events.

Doolittle’s Dilemma Virtual Class

Japan has become aggressively Imperialistic to our ally, China. War is breaking out in Asia, but the fatigue of World War I is still felt. What would you do? Then Pearl Harbor is attacked. How would you respond?  The Japanese are controlling the fight in the Pacific.  American moral is low.  Something needs to change. Doolittle has a plan. Trace the steps that led to the US being pulled into World War II as you decide the action to take at each point.  Learn about Doolittle’s plan, the men that volunteered, and how it changed the war. Then recalculated the math to confirm it is even possible, especially when it starts out by not going according to plan.

Take an up close look at the Special Delivery, the museum’s B-17 painted in the colors of the Doolittle Raiders and the model of the USS Hornet with bombers loaded for the mission.

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Go Zero G Virtual Class

Explore the boundary between aviation and space – how are aircraft used to train astronauts for life without gravity? Discuss the true effects of gravity, the feeling of weightlessness, and how it can be accomplished in a aircraft without leaving the atmosphere. 


Aviation Learning Center Virtual Classes

Class topics are based on the stations in the Aviation Learning Center Learning Lab and use the interactive software and hands-on experiments of the on-site program. Virtual classes will incorporate live LSFM instructor chat with presentation software that will guide information and experimental activities. To allow students to follow along with experiments, some of the topics recommend gathering common supplies such as yardsticks, paper airplanes, paperclips, and empty bottles.

PICK 3

Choose any three of the following mini-lessons to cover in your one-hour session. All six topics can be covered by reserving two sessions.

COMBO

Choose any one of the mini-lessons below and use the rest of the hour on a quick tour in hangars learning about the planes Q&A with your instructor.

Flight Dynamics
Explore the basic physics of flight and the four forces of flight and learn how these physical principles make flight possible.


Instrument Flight
Learn how flight instruments– the compass, altimeter, and attitude indicator-work, and how pilots utilize them to draw conclusions about an airplane’s position and motion.


Navigation
Students explore the fundamental concepts of navigation- latitude, longitude, and compass directions, while they practice using a pilot’s chart and other navigation tools to plot a local flight.


Weather
Analyze the current weather conditions  to understand how weather affects flight and determine if it is safe to fly.


Weight and Balance
Working with a variety of model airplanes, students explore the concepts of load weight and center of gravity, and how they affect the flight of an aircraft.


Wind Tunnel
Using a wind tunnel and wind tunnel app, students focus on basic aerodynamic theory and the mechanics of lift.

Have a topic idea?  Let us know and we can develop the class for you!

Distance Learning session are conducted using Zoom, GoToMeeting, or other platforms. Login information is sent to the coordinator prior to the live event. Equipment check sessions may be done before the event by request. Payment is due in full after the equipment check but before the live session.

Click to reserve your Virtual Hangar Class.   Note: this link will take you to the Field Trip Reservation Form.  Some of the information requested will not pertain to Distance Learning events.