Combat Air Museum

Our Young Aviators completed day three of the class. We learned about the National Airspace System, air traffic control procedures and the layout of Forbes Field at Topeka Regional Airport. We then traveled to the Museum of the Kansas National Guard to find out more about the beginnings of aviation in the Kansas Army and Air National Guard and visited the aircraft in the collection. After returning to the Combat Air Museum for juice and a snack, four of the students flew our flight simulator while the rest learned about aircraft engines and how to perform a preflight inspection of our 1946 Fairchild 24. We were so busy we forgot to take pictures today!

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Combat Air Museum's Young Aviators Class 26-1 started Monday and our students learned about the fundamentals of flight, basic aircraft instruments, built and flew foam plate gliders and then toured the Museum.
Today we visited the 190th Air Refueling Wing, where our Young Aviators went inside and around a KC-135 and tested their refueling skills in the Boom Operator Simulator System (BOSS). After a snack the day ended with a discussion of aerial navigation and looking over an aeronautical chart of the local area.